How much can randomness help computation? Motivated by this general question and by volume computation, one of the few instances where randomness provably helps, we analyze a noti...
Writing concurrent programs is difficult because of the complexity of ensuring proper synchronization. Conventional lock-based synchronization suffers from wellknown limitations, ...
After a component based system is developed, it has to be deployed into a target environment. As the system becomes much larger and more complex and the environment becomes open an...
Ling Lan, Gang Huang, Liya Ma, Meng Wang, Hong Mei...
Testing forms a critical part of the development process for large-scale software, and there is growing need for automated tools that can read, represent, analyze, and transform th...
—A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidenc...