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Autor:
G. M. Shi, William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
ISSTA
An approach to systematic informal program analysis is discussed in which comments that describe hypotheses and assertions about the behavior of programs are analyzed. Event sequence comments analysis methods analyze the consistency of comments that
Autor:
Yudong Huang, William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 4:36-64
A measure of software dependability called trustability is described. A program p has trustability T if we are at least T confident that p is free of faults. Trustability measurement depends on detectability. The detectability of a method is the prob
Autor:
William E. Howden, Bruce Robert Wieand
Publikováno v:
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 20:445-462
Formal verification of program properties may be infeasible or impractical, and informal analysis may be sufficient. Informal analysis involves the informal acceptance, by inspection, of the validity of program properties or steps in an analysis. Inf
Autor:
William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
WOSOCER
An error-based approach to certification is described. A classical theory of error is reviewed and a software interpretation of the theory is developed. The interpretation suggests a strategy for testing and analysis. The strategy was evaluated by co
Autor:
William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
COMPSAC Workshops
An approach to error-based testing is described that uses simple programmer error models and focus-directed methods for detecting the effects of errors. Errors are associated with forgetting, ignorance, bandwidth and perversity. The focus-directed ap
Publikováno v:
Information Sciences. :427-450
The principal technological problem in large systems development and maintenance is the management of complexity. Part of the problem is that there is seldom a complete set of formal specifications for such systems. This may not change for a variety
Autor:
Linda Werner, William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
Journal of Systems and Software. 15:205-215
An investigation into the application of data usage analysis to detect faults in large data processing programs was performed. This investigation was done to gain insight into the applicability of data usage analysis. The method uses stylized comment
Autor:
William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
Software Testing, Verification and Reliability. 1:5-15
It is argued that the goal in verification and validation is not correctness, but the detection of the occurrence of errors in the program construction process. Different methods, such as proofs and testing, should not be viewed as competing techniqu
Publikováno v:
COMPSAC
Software that has been well tested and analyzed may fail unpredictably when a certain combination of conditions occurs. In bounded exhaustive testing (BET) all combinations are tested on reduced versions of a problem/application with the idea that bu
Autor:
William E. Howden
Publikováno v:
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 16:72-81
Software validation is treated as the problem of detecting errors that programmers make during the software development process. This includes fault detection, in which the focus is on techniques for detecting the occurrence of local errors that resu