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IWPC
1996
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Formal Architectural Design Patterns-Based Approach to Software Understanding
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Modular Verification of Software Components in C
We present a new methodology for automatic verification of C programs against finite state machine specifications. Our approach is compositional, naturally enabling us to decompos...
Sagar Chaki, Edmund M. Clarke, Alex Groce, Somesh ...
RISE
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Software Testing with Evolutionary Strategies
Abstract. This paper applies the Evolutionary Strategy (ES) metaheuristic to the automatic test data generation problem. The problem consists in creating automatically a set of inp...
Enrique Alba, J. Francisco Chicano
EMSOFT
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Disassembling real-time fault-tolerant programs
We focus on decomposition of hard-masking real-time faulttolerant programs (where safety, timing constraints, and liveness are preserved in the presence of faults) that are design...
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Anish Ar...
PEPM
2011
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Adaptation-based programming in java
Writing deterministic programs is often difficult for problems whose optimal solutions depend on unpredictable properties of the programs’ inputs. Difficulty is also encounter...
Tim Bauer, Martin Erwig, Alan Fern, Jervis Pinto