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SIGSOFT
2002
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Using redundancies to find errors
This paper explores the idea that redundant operations, like type errors, commonly flag correctness errors. We experimentally test this idea by writing and applying four redundanc...
Yichen Xie, Dawson R. Engler
ICPP
1994
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A New Approach to Scheduling Parallel Programs Using Task Duplication
1 In this paper, we explore the problem of scheduling parallel programs using task duplication for messagepassing multicomputers. Task duplication means scheduling a parallel progr...
Ishfaq Ahmad, Yu-Kwong Kwok
ICSEA
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Issues and Tactics when Adopting Pair Programming: A Longitudinal Case Study
We present experiences from a two-year study of adopting pair programming (PP) in a Finnish software product company. When adopting PP, the company used five tactics: the creation...
Jari Vanhanen, Casper Lassenius, Mika Mäntyl&...
METRICS
1999
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Measuring Coupling and Cohesion: An Information-Theory Approach
The design of software is often depicted by graphs that show components and their relationships. For example, a structure chart shows the calling relationships among components. O...
Edward B. Allen, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar
CODES
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Compile-time decided instruction cache locking using worst-case execution paths
Caches are notorious for their unpredictability. It is difficult or even impossible to predict if a memory access results in a definite cache hit or miss. This unpredictability i...
Heiko Falk, Sascha Plazar, Henrik Theiling