SIGSOFT

This paper provides a brief overview and report on the main out-comes of the software change and evolution (SCE99) workshop held in Los Angeles on May 17, 1999, as part of the International Conference on Software Engineering 1999.The purpose of the ...

The objective of this research is to produce useful, low-cost methods for developing correct concurrent programs from formal specifications. In particular, we address the design and verification of the synchronization and communication portions of such ...

The goal of this research project is to develop a bidirectional program debugger with which one can move as easily backwards as current debuggers move forward. We believe this will be a vastly more useful debugger. A programmer will be able to start at ...

This project builds on my ongoing research into design formalisms for, and the automatic verification of, concurrent systems. The difficulties such systems pose for system engineers are well-known and result in large part from the the complexities of ...

Program verification and program transformation are two research areas that have different goals. Program verification aims to increase confidence in software through the use of formal methods and systematic testing. Program transformation rearranges ...

Model checking has been applied quite successfully to hardware verification and shows promise for software verification. The key obstacle is the well-known state explosion problem. This report describes work done by the investigator under NSF support, ...

Although many techniques for testing software have been proposed over the last twenty years, there is still not enough solid evidence to indicate which (if any) of these techniques are effective. It is difficult to perform meaningful comparisons of the ...

Cleverly designed software often fails to strictly satisfy its specifications, but instead satisfies them behaviorally, in the sense that they appear to be true under all possible experiments. Hidden algebra extends prior work on abstract data types and ...