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ISSTA
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
A comparative study of programmer-written and automatically inferred contracts
Where do contracts — specification elements embedded in executable code — come from? To produce them, should we rely on the programmers, on automatic tools, or some combinati...
Nadia Polikarpova, Ilinca Ciupa, Bertrand Meyer
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ERLANG
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Model checking erlang programs: the functional approach
We present the new model checker McErlang for verifying Erlang programs. In comparison with the etomcrl tool set, McErlang differs mainly in that it is implemented in Erlang. The ...
Lars-Åke Fredlund, Clara Benac Earle
ICSE
2011
IEEE-ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Inferring better contracts
Considerable progress has been made towards automatic support for one of the principal techniques available to enhance program reliability: equipping programs with extensive contr...
Yi Wei, Carlo A. Furia, Nikolay Kazmin, Bertrand M...
111
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SIGCSE
2000
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Bugs as features: teaching network protocols through debugging
Being exposed to well-written code is a valuable experience for students -- especially when the code is larger or more complex than they are currently capable of writing. In addit...
Brad Richards
96
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KBSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Inferring Method Effect Summaries for Nested Heap Regions
Effect systems are important for reasoning about the side effects of a program. Although effect systems have been around for decades, they have not been widely adopted in practice...
Mohsen Vakilian, Danny Dig, Robert L. Bocchino Jr....