Aspect oriented programming has been proposed as a way to improve modularity of software systems by allowing encapsulation of cross-cutting concerns. To do so, aspects specify where new functionality should apply using pointcuts. Unfortunately ...

This article addresses the generation of traces to monitor the execution of distributed Java systems, and investigates the use of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) as the instrumentation strategy to get the necessary information at runtime. The overall ...

As size and complexity of software systems increase, preserving the design and specification of their implementation structure gains importance in order to maintain the evolvability of the system. However, due to constant changes, the implementation ...

To remain competitive in the fast paced world of software development, managers must optimize the usage of their limited resources to deliver quality products on time and within budget. In this paper, we present an approach (The Top Ten List) which ...

Regression testing is an important part of software maintenance, but it can also be very expensive. To reduce this expense, software testers may prioritize their test cases so that those that are more important are run earlier in the regression testing ...

Software testing is a critical part of software development. Test suite sizes may grow significantly with subsequent modifications to the software over time. Due to time and resource constraints for testing, test suite minimization techniques attempt to ...

During regression testing, a modified system is retested using the existing test suite. Because the size of the test suite may be very large, testers are interested in detecting faults in the system as early as possible during the retesting process. ...

Several rapid-feedback-based quality assurance mechanisms are used to manage the quality of continuously evolving software. Even though graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are one of the most important parts of software, there are currently no mechanisms ...

A software package evolves in time through various maintenance release steps whose effectiveness depends mainly on the number of faults left in the modules. Software testing is one of the most demanding and crucial phases to discover and reduce faults. ...

In this paper we report on how Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), using AspectJ, can be employed to automatically and efficiently instrument contracts and invariants in Java. The paper focuses on the templates to instrument preconditions, postconditions, ...

Code duplication is a well documented problem in software systems. There has been considerable research into techniques for detecting duplication in software, and there are several effective tools to perform this task. However, a common problem with ...

Feature identification is a well-known technique to identify subsets of a program source code activated when exercising a functionality. Several approaches have been proposed to identify features. We present an approach to feature identification and ...

In the process of software maintenance, it is usually a time-consuming task to track down bugs. To reduce the cost on debugging, several approaches have been proposed to localize the fault(s) to facilitate debugging. Intuitively, testing-based fault ...

Crisp is a tool (i.e., an Eclipse plug-in) for constructing intermediate versions of a Java program that is being edited in an IDE such as Eclipse. After a long editing session, a programmer usually will run regression tests to make sure she has not ...

Testing plays an important role in the maintenance of Component Based Software Development. Test adequacy for component testing is one of the hardest issues for component testing. To tackle this problem, it is a natural idea to apply mutation testing, ...

Current tools for software understanding mostly concentrate on one comprehension technique, e.g., visualization, or bottom-up navigation through software elements via hyperlinks. In this paper, we argue that to effectively assist developers in ...

Test suite reduction is an important test maintenance activity that attempts to reduce the size of a test suite with respect to some criteria. Emerging trends in software development such as component reuse, multi-language implementations, and stringent ...

Automated cost-effective test strategies are needed to provide reliable, secure, and usable web applications. As a software maintainer updates an application, test cases must accurately reflect usage to expose faults that users are most likely to ...

Regression testing is a widely-used method for checking whether modifications to software systems have adversely affected the overall functionality. This is potentially an expensive process, since test suites can be large and time-consuming to execute. ...