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ICSM
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
ISPASS
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Accelerating Full-System Simulation through Characterizing and Predicting Operating System Performance
The ongoing trend of increasing computer hardware and software complexity has resulted in the increase in complexity and overheads of cycle-accurate processor system simulation, e...
Seongbeom Kim, Fang Liu, Yan Solihin, Ravi R. Iyer...
PASTE
2005
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Generalizing symbolic execution to library classes
Forward symbolic execution is a program analysis technique that allows using symbolic inputs to explore program executions. The traditional applications of this technique have foc...
Sarfraz Khurshid, Yuk Lai Suen
PLDI
2005
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Jungloid mining: helping to navigate the API jungle
Reuse of existing code from class libraries and frameworks is often difficult because APIs are complex and the client code required to use the APIs can be hard to write. We obser...
David Mandelin, Lin Xu, Rastislav Bodík, Do...
PLDI
2004
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
KISS: keep it simple and sequential
The design of concurrent programs is error-prone due to the interaction between concurrently executing threads. Traditional automated techniques for finding errors in concurrent ...
Shaz Qadeer, Dinghao Wu