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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Differential testing: a new approach to change detection
Regression testing, as it's commonly practiced, is unsound due to inconsistent test repair and test addition. This paper presents a new technique, differential testing, that ...
Robert B. Evans, Alberto Savoia
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Automated testing of refactoring engines
Brett Daniel, Danny Dig, Kely Garcia, Darko Marino...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Mining specifications of malicious behavior
Malware detectors require a specification of malicious behavior. Typically, these specifications are manually constructed by investigating known malware. We present an automatic t...
Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha, Christopher Krue...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Programming asynchronous layers with CLARITY
Asynchronous systems components are hard to write, hard to reason about, and (not coincidentally) hard to mechanically verify. In order to achieve high performance, asynchronous c...
Prakash Chandrasekaran, Christopher L. Conway, Jos...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Efficient token based clone detection with flexible tokenization
Code clones are similar code fragments that occur at multiple locations in a software system. Detection of code clones provides useful information for maintenance, reengineering, ...
Hamid Abdul Basit, Stan Jarzabek
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns
Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilience to change...
Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Co...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Mining API patterns as partial orders from source code: from usage scenarios to specifications
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Using these library APIs often needs to follow certain usage patterns. Furthermore, ordering rules (sp...
Mithun Acharya, Tao Xie, Jian Pei, Jun Xu
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Automatic consistency assessment for query results in dynamic environments
Jamie Payton, Christine Julien, Gruia-Catalin Roma...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A study of interleaving coverage criteria
Concurrency bugs are becoming increasingly important due to the prevalence of concurrent programs. A fundamental problem of concurrent program bug detection and testing is that th...
Shan Lu, Weihang Jiang, Yuanyuan Zhou