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SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Why do developers neglect exception handling?
In this paper, we explore the problems associated with exception handling from a new dimension: the human. We designed a study that evaluates (1) different perspectives of softwar...
Carsten Görg, Hina Shah, Mary Jean Harrold
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 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
16 years 7 months ago
The impact of input domain reduction on search-based test data generation
There has recently been a great deal of interest in search? based test data generation, with many local and global search algorithms being proposed. However, to date, there has be...
Mark Harman, Youssef Hassoun, Kiran Lakhotia, Phil...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
On marrying ontological and metamodeling technical spaces
In software engineering, the use of models and metamodeling approaches (e.g., MDA with MOF/UML) for purposes such as software design or software validation is an established pract...
Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab, Andreas W...
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Lightweight object specification with typestates
Previous work has proven typestates to be useful for modeling protocols in object-oriented languages. We build on this work by addressing substitutability of subtypes as well as i...
Kevin Bierhoff, Jonathan Aldrich