The control system of many complex mechatronic products requires for each task the Worst Case Execution Time (WCET), which is needed for the scheduler's admission tests and su...
We define a generic join point model for checking the Law of Demeter (LoD). Join points are trees, pointcuts are predicates over join points, and advice is checked statically sim...
Abstract. This paper presents a technique that uses code to automatically generate its own test cases at run-time by using a combination of symbolic and concrete (i.e., regular) ex...
—Software reliability is defined as the probability of failure-free operation for a period of time, under certain conditions. To determine whether the reliability of an applicat...
Zhen Ming Jiang, Alberto Avritzer, Emad Shihab, Ah...
We illustrate the application of Nitpick, a specification checker, to the design of a style mechanism for a word processor. The design is cast, along with some expected properties...