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We describe a benchmark of publicly-available multi-threaded programs with documented bugs in them. This project was initiated a few years ago with the goal of helping research groups in the fields of concurrent testing and debugging to develop tools and algorithms that improve the quality of concurrent programs. We present a survey of usage of the benchmark, concluding that the benchmark had an impact...
This paper presents a course model for teaching component-based software development (CBSD) in the software engineering undergraduate curriculum to deepen and broaden student comprehension of component software. All hands-on lab practices are designed with open-source software tools. The course endows students the precious experiences of making design decisions via comparative study, risk analysis,...
The net generation of students have characteristics which make them well-suited for participating in open source projects including being comfortable with information technologies, using IT as a form of communication, desiring to work in groups, a desire to do social good, and being fascinated by new technologies. The nature of open source projects where communities of developers from around the world...
Software specification is an important element of the software development process. However, in most cases the specifications are out-of-date or even missing. One solution for this kind of problem is to use some process that infers the specification automatically. Work by Ernst et al (2000 ; 2002) has shown how specifications can be generated using program execution traces. These approaches are dependent...
For the past 20 years, Seattle University's Master of Software Engineering program has incorporated industry sponsored projects into its capstone course sequence. Starting in 2005 the program was expanded to leverage projects that would cut across the themes presented in various courses to enable students to experience continuity and a common pedagogical application in various topics. The projects...
We propose a benchmark for object-oriented unit testing, called the behavioural response. This is a normative set of state- and equivalence partition-based test cases. Metrics are then defined to measure the adequacy and effectiveness of a test set (with respect to the benchmark) and the efficiency of the testing method (with respect to the time invested). The metrics are applied to expert manual...
Software testing plays an important role in the life cycle of software development. Because software testing is very costly and tedious, many techniques have been proposed to automate it. One technique that has achieved good results is the use of search algorithms. Because most previous work on search algorithms has been of an empirical nature, there is a need for theoretical results that confirm...
The Computer Science Department at the University of Montana consistently provides a realistic commercial software development and/or maintenance experience for both undergraduate and graduate students. Through the undergraduate capstone sequence and the graduate level two semester sequence in software engineering students learn and apply software engineering techniques. However, they face unexpected...
This paper provides an overview of work being done in the EntryPoint project, which is examining the first course work in computing degrees. A key goal of this project is to move away from the traditional CS1/CS2 programming courses as the start of a computing degree. In addition, the project team is looking at how these ideas might be extended to BSSE degree programs. As such, this paper will discuss...
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