Detecting the presence of buffer overflow attacks in network messages has been a major focus. Only knowing whether a message contains an attack, however, is not always enough to m...
tection via Structural Abstraction William S. Evans Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4, CANADA Christopher W. Fraser Microsoft Re...
Comments are valuable especially for program understanding and maintenance, but do developers comment their code? To which extent do they add comments or adapt them when they evol...
Our analysis of crosscutting concerns in real-life software systems (totaling over 500,000 LOC) and in reports from literature indicated a number of properties that allow for thei...
Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...