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CODES
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Architectural support for safe software execution on embedded processors
The lack of memory safety in many popular programming languages, including C and C++, has been a cause for great concern in the realm of software reliability, verification, and mo...
Divya Arora, Anand Raghunathan, Srivaths Ravi, Nir...
ICSE
1997
IEEE-ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Prioritizing Software Requirements in an Industrial Setting
The planning of additional featuresand releases is a major concem for commercialsoftware companies. We describe how, in collaboration with Ericsson Radio Systems, we developed and...
Kevin Ryan, Joachim Karlsson
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ESEM
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Strengthening the empirical analysis of the relationship between Linus' Law and software security
Open source software is often considered to be secure because large developer communities can be leveraged to find and fix security vulnerabilities. Eric Raymond states Linus’ L...
Andrew Meneely, Laurie A. Williams
WCRE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...
Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, Yann-Gaë...
POPL
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A theory of platform-dependent low-level software
The C language definition leaves the sizes and layouts of types partially unspecified. When a C program makes assumptions about type layout, its semantics is defined only on platf...
Marius Nita, Dan Grossman, Craig Chambers