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Types for safe locking: Static race detection for Java

by Martin Abadi, Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund - ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems , 2006
"... This article presents a static race-detection analysis for multithreaded shared-memory programs, focusing on the Java programming language. The analysis is based on a type system that captures many common synchronization patterns. It supports classes with internal synchronization, classes that requi ..."
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that require client-side synchronization, and thread-local classes. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the type system, we have implemented it in a checker and applied it to over 40,000 lines of hand-annotated Java code. We found a number of race conditions in the standard Java libraries and other

Extended Static Checking for Java

by Cormac Flanagan, K. Rustan M. Leino, Mark Lillibridge, Greg Nelson, James B. Saxe, Raymie Stata , 2002
"... Software development and maintenance are costly endeavors. The cost can be reduced if more software defects are detected earlier in the development cycle. This paper introduces the Extended Static Checker for Java (ESC/Java), an experimental compile-time program checker that finds common programming ..."
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programming errors. The checker is powered by verification-condition generation and automatic theoremproving techniques. It provides programmers with a simple annotation language with which programmer design decisions can be expressed formally. ESC/Java examines the annotated software and warns

Bandera: Extracting Finite-state Models from Java Source Code

by James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Shawn Laubach, Corina S. Pasareanu, Hongjun Zheng - IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING , 2000
"... Finite-state verification techniques, such as model checking, have shown promise as a cost-effective means for finding defects in hardware designs. To date, the application of these techniques to software has been hindered by several obstacles. Chief among these is the problem of constructing a fini ..."
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program source code. Bandera takes as input Java source code and generates a program model in the input language of one of several existing verification tools; Bandera also maps verifier outputs back to the original source code. We discuss the major components of Bandera and give an overview of how it can

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts , 1999
"... As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applic ..."
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As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting

Preliminary design of jml: a behavioral interface specification language for java

by Gary T Leavens , Albert L Baker , Clyde Ruby - SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes
"... Abstract JML is a behavioral interface specification language tailored to Java(TM). Besides pre-and postconditions, it also allows assertions to be intermixed with Java code; these aid verification and debugging. JML is designed to be used by working software engineers; to do this it follows Eiffel ..."
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Abstract JML is a behavioral interface specification language tailored to Java(TM). Besides pre-and postconditions, it also allows assertions to be intermixed with Java code; these aid verification and debugging. JML is designed to be used by working software engineers; to do this it follows

Jflow: Practical mostly-static information flow control.

by Andrew C Myers - In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages, , 1999
"... Abstract A promising technique for protecting privacy and integrity of sensitive data is to statically check information flow within programs that manipulate the data. While previous work has proposed programming language extensions to allow this static checking, the resulting languages are too res ..."
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restrictive for practical use and have not been implemented. In this paper, we describe the new language JFlow, an extension to the Java language that adds statically-checked information flow annotations. JFlow provides several new features that make information flow checking more flexible and convenient than

The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis

by Stephen M Blackburn, Robin Garner , Chris Hoffmann , Asjad M Khan , Kathryn S Mckinley , Rotem Bentzur , Amer Diwan , Daniel Feinberg , Daniel Frampton , Samuel Z Guyer , Martin Hirzel , Antony Hosking , Maria Jump , Han Lee , J Eliot B Moss, Aashish Phansalkar , Darko Stefanović , Thomas Vandrunen , Daniel Von Dincklage , Ben Wiedermann
"... Since benchmarks drive computer science research and industry product development, which ones we use and how we evaluate them are key questions for the community. Despite complex runtime tradeoffs due to dynamic compilation and garbage collection required for Java programs, many evaluations still us ..."
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not require (3). We use and introduce new value, time-series, and statistical metrics for static and dynamic properties such as code complexity, code size, heap composition, and pointer mutations. No benchmark suite is definitive, but these metrics show that DaCapo improves over SPEC Java in a variety of ways

Making the future safe for the past: Adding Genericity to the Java Programming Language

by Gilad Bracha , Martin Odersky, David Stoutamire, Philip Wadler , 1998
"... We present GJ, a design that extends the Java programming language with generic types and methods. These are both explained and implemented by translation into the unextended language. The translation closely mimics the way generics are emulated by programmers: it erases all type parameters, maps ty ..."
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by the translation are guaranteed to not fail. GJ is designed to be fully backwards compatible with the current Java language, which simplifies the transition from non-generic to generic programming. In particular, one can retrofit existing library classes with generic interfaces without changing their code

Design Pattern Implementation in Java and AspectJ

by Jan Hannemann, Gregor Kiczales , 2002
"... AspectJ implementations of the GoF design patterns show modularity improvements in 17 of 23 cases. These improvements are manifested in terms of better code locality, reusability, composability, and (un)pluggability. The degree of ..."
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AspectJ implementations of the GoF design patterns show modularity improvements in 17 of 23 cases. These improvements are manifested in terms of better code locality, reusability, composability, and (un)pluggability. The degree of

Recovering traceability links between code and documentation

by Giuliano Antoniol, Gerardo Canfora, Gerardo Casazza, Andrea De Lucia, Ettore Merlo - IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng , 2002
"... Abstract—Software system documentation is almost always expressed informally in natural language and free text. Examples include requirement specifications, design documents, manual pages, system development journals, error logs, and related maintenance reports. We propose a method based on informat ..."
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to trace C++ source code onto manual pages and Java code to functional requirements. We compare the results of applying the two models, discuss the benefits and limitations, and describe directions for improvements.
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