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VSTTE
2005
Springer
16 years 9 hour ago
Linking the Meaning of Programs to What the Compiler Can Verify
We formulate some research and development challenges that relate what a verifying compiler can verify to the definition and analysis of the application-content of programs, where...
Egon Börger
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A type system for object models
A type system for object models is described that supports subtypes and allows overloading of relation names. No special features need be added to the modelling language; in parti...
Jonathan Edwards, Daniel Jackson, Emina Torlak
AMAST
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Semantics of Plan Revision in Intelligent Agents
Abstract. In this paper, we give an operational and denotational semantics for a 3APL meta-language, with which various 3APL interpreters can be programmed. We moreover prove equiv...
Birna van Riemsdijk, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Frank S...
XPU
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Going Interactive: Combining Ad-Hoc and Regression Testing
Abstract. Different kinds of unit testing activities are used in practice. Organised unit testing (regression testing or test-first activities) are very popular in commercial pract...
Michael Kölling, Andrew Patterson
XPU
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Suitability of FIT User Acceptance Tests for Specifying Functional Requirements: Developer Perspective
Abstract. The paper outlines an experiment conducted in two different academic environments, in which FIT tests were used as a functional requirements specification. Common challen...
Grigori Melnik, Kris Read, Frank Maurer