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CORR
2008
Springer
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Investigating the Potential of Test-Driven Development for Spreadsheet Engineering
It is widely documented that the absence of a structured approach to spreadsheet engineering is a key factor in the high level of spreadsheet errors. In this paper we propose and ...
Alan Rust, Brian Bishop, Kevin McDaid
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
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An empirical study of the effects of test-suite reduction on fault localization
Fault-localization techniques that utilize information about all test cases in a test suite have been presented. These techniques use various approaches to identify the likely fau...
Yanbing Yu, James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Best practices in extreme programming course design
Teaching (and therefore learning) eXtreme Programming (XP) in a university setting is difficult because of course time limitations and the soft nature of XP that requires first-ha...
Kai Stapel, Daniel Lübke, Eric Knauss
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Sufficient mutation operators for measuring test effectiveness
Mutants are automatically-generated, possibly faulty variants of programs. The mutation adequacy ratio of a test suite is the ratio of non-equivalent mutants it is able to identif...
Akbar Siami Namin, James H. Andrews, Duncan J. Mur...
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SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards compositional synthesis of evolving systems
Synthesis of system configurations from a given set of features is an important and very challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards this goal by describing an efficient ...
Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Marsha Chechik, ...