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ISSTA
1993
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Faults on Its Sleeve: Amplifying Software Reliability Testing
Most of the effort that goes into improving the quality of software paradoxically does not lead to quantitative, measurable quality. Software developers and quality-assurance orga...
Richard G. Hamlet, Jeffrey M. Voas
IUI
1993
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The price of flexibility
The goal of this paper is to model an agent who dislikes large choice sets because of the “cost of thinking” involved in choosing from them. We take as a primitive a preferenc...
David D. Woods
PEPM
1994
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The Essence of Eta-Expansion in Partial Evaluation
Abstract. Selective eta-expansion is a powerful "binding-time improvement", i.e., a sourceprogram modification that makes a partial evaluator yield better results. But li...
Olivier Danvy, Karoline Malmkjær, Jens Palsb...
UIST
1993
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Model-based User Interface Design by Example and by Interview
Model-based user interface design is centered around a description of application objects and operations at a level of ion higher than that of code. A good model can be used to su...
Martin R. Frank, James D. Foley
FSEN
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Executable Interface Specifications for Testing Asynchronous Creol Components
We propose and explore a formal approach for black-box testing asynchronously communicating components in open environments. Asynchronicity poses a challenge for validating and tes...
Immo Grabe, Marcel Kyas, Martin Steffen, Arild B. ...