We describe a methodology for evolving Java bytecode, enabling the evolution of extant, unrestricted Java programs, or programs in other languages that compile to Java bytecode. B...
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) has been proposed as a methodology that provides new modularization of software systems by allowing encapsulation of cross-cutting concerns. Aspe...
The ability to predict which files in a large software system are most likely to contain the largest numbers of faults in the next release can be a very valuable asset. To accomp...
Thomas J. Ostrand, Elaine J. Weyuker, Robert M. Be...
Program specifications are important for many tasks during software design, development, and maintenance. Among these, temporal specifications are particularly useful. They expres...
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...