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SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Inter-context control-flow and data-flow test adequacy criteria for nesC applications
NesC is a programming language for applications that run on top of networked sensor nodes. Such an application mainly uses an interrupt to trigger a sequence of operations, known ...
Zhifeng Lai, Shing-Chi Cheung, Wing Kwong Chan
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Using groupings of static analysis alerts to identify files likely to contain field failures
In this paper, we propose a technique for leveraging historical field failure records in conjunction with automated static analysis alerts to determine which alerts or sets of ale...
Mark Sherriff, Sarah Smith Heckman, J. Michael Lak...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Programming asynchronous layers with CLARITY
Asynchronous systems components are hard to write, hard to reason about, and (not coincidentally) hard to mechanically verify. In order to achieve high performance, asynchronous c...
Prakash Chandrasekaran, Christopher L. Conway, Jos...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Program comprehension as fact finding
Little is known about how developers think about design during code modification tasks or how experienced developers' design knowledge helps them work more effectively. We pe...
Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb,...