Runtime property checking (as implemented in tools like Purify or Valgrind) checks whether a program execution satisfies a property. Active property checking extends runtime check...
Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, David A. Moln...
Abstract. The Model-Driven Development (MDD) describes and maintains models of the system under development. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) supports a set of semantics and no...
Current software development methodologies (such as agile and RUP) are largely management-centred, macro-process life-cycle models. While they may include some fine-grained micro-p...
Liming Zhu, D. Ross Jeffery, Mark Staples, Ming Hu...
Software inspection helps to improve the quality of software products early in the development process. For design inspection recent research showed that usage-based reading of doc...
Software that cannot change is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant revision and renegotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new technol...
Ronald Morrison, Graham N. C. Kirby, Dharini Balas...