Latest issue of ACM's Software Engineering Notes is dedicated to software testing and analysis
Whenever I read proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT (Special Interest Group on Software Engineering) I find myself thinking that probably I’m wasting my time. Most of the articles could IMHO be classified as "esoteric software engineering" which is probably fine when the reader is working on his/her Ph.D. thesis or is scientist. My personal interest lays in practical applications (yet another chance to cite Fred Brooks - "A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build") so I'm mainly interested in how I can apply anything what's described IRL ;-)
Latest issue of SIGSOFT is dedicated to software testing and analysis and has a couple of interesting articles I have found to be the most applicable to my work related duties:
- Nurit Dor, Stephen Adams, Manuvir Das, Zhe Yang: "Software validation via scalable path-sensitive value flow analysis". This article mentions a tool called ESP (Error detection via Scalable Program analysis).
- David Saff, Michael D. Ernst: "An experimental evaluation of continuous testing during development".
- T. J. Ostrand, E. J. Weyuker, R. M. Bell: "Where the bugs are".
- Darrell Reimer, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, Harini Srinivasan, Bowen Alpern, Robert D. Johnson, Aaron Kershenbaum, Larry Koved: "SABER: Smart Analysis Based Error Reduction".
If you’re interested in subjects mentioned below then check these articles out on your next trip to the library, at least I felt that my time was well spent ;-)