Program slice is a set of statements that affect the value of variable v in a statement s. In order to calculate a program slice, we must know the dependence relations between sta...
Safety is increasingly important for software based, critical systems. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a safety technique from engineering, developed for analyzing and assessing syste...
A number of recent systems have provided rich facilities for manipulating the timelines of applications. Such timelines represent the history of an application’s use in some ses...
W. Keith Edwards, Takeo Igarashi, Anthony LaMarca,...
Systems requirements errors are numerous, persistent, and expensive. To detect such errors, and focus on critical ones during the development of a requirements document, we have d...
There are many commercial tools that address various aspects of the Year 2000 problem. None of these tools, however, addresses the closely-related leap-year problem. In this paper...