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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 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
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
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Arithmetic program paths
We present Arithmetic Program Paths, a novel, efficient way to compress program control-flow traces that reduces program bit traces to less than a fifth of their original size whi...
Manos Renieris, Shashank Ramaprasad, Steven P. Rei...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Implementing protocols via declarative event patterns
This paper introduces declarative event patterns (DEPs) as a means to implement protocols while improving their traceability, comprehensibility, and maintainability. DEPs are desc...
Robert J. Walker, Kevin Viggers
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Leveraging field data for impact analysis and regression testing
Software products are often released with missing functionality, errors, or incompatibilities that may result in failures, inferior performances, or user dissatisfaction. In previ...
Alessandro Orso, Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Mary Jea...