Updating the requirements specification during software evolution is a manual and expensive task. Therefore, software engineers usually choose to apply modifications directly to t...
Developers change source code to add new functionality, fix bugs, or refactor their code. Many of these changes have immediate impact on quality or stability. However, some impact...
—Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little ...
Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Kim Herzig...
Abstract. The Verifying Compiler checks the correctness of the program it compiles. The workhorse of such a tool is the reasoning engine, which decides validity of formulae in a su...
An automated technique to translate conditional rewrite rules into unconditional ones is presented, which is suitable to implement, or compile, conditional rewriting on top of much...