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ISSRE
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Using Historical In-Process and Product Metrics for Early Estimation of Software Failures
The benefits that a software organization obtains from estimates of product quality are dependent upon how early in the product cycle that these estimates are available. Early est...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Brendan Murphy
WCRE
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Reverse Engineering Self-Modifying Code: Unpacker Extraction
—An important application of binary-level reverse engineering is in reconstructing the internal logic of computer malware. Most malware code is distributed in encrypted (or “pa...
Saumya K. Debray, Jay Patel
ISSTA
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A formal analysis of requirements-based testing
The aim of requirements-based testing is to generate test cases from a set of requirements for a given system or piece of software. In this paper we propose a formal semantics for...
Charles Pecheur, Franco Raimondi, Guillaume Brat
ICSM
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
A Software Transformation Framework for Quality-Driven Object-Oriented Re-engineering
In re-engineering object-oriented legacy code, it is frequently useful to introduce a design pattern in order to improve specific non-functional requirements (e.g., maintainabili...
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
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ISSTA
1993
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Mutation Analysis Using Mutant Schemata
Mutation analysis is a powerful technique for assessing and improving the quality of test data used to unit test software. Unfortunately, current automated mutation analysis syste...
Roland H. Untch, A. Jefferson Offutt, Mary Jean Ha...