This paper discusses the features of OODREX, a prototype object-oriented design tool
currently under development. It supports design for reuse with exceptions, which includes …

Inspections can be used to identify defects in software artifacts. In this way, inspection
methods help to improve software quality, especially when used early in software …

Effective testing involves preparing test oracles and test cases, two activities which are too
tedious to be effectively performed by humans, yet for the most part remain manual. The …

Unit testing is a methodology for testing small parts of an application independently of
whatever application uses them. It is time consuming and tedious to write unit tests, and it is …

It is very hard to fix a software failure without being able to reproduce it. However,
reproducing a failure is often difficult and time-consuming. This paper proposes a novel …

More applications are designed as server programs, many of which are expected to run
24x7. Ensuring the quality of error handling code is vital to the high availability that are …

Although inspection is established as an effective mechanism for detecting defects in
procedural systems, object-oriented systems have different structural and execution models …

Software engineers often need to identify in their systems “poor” design choices—design
defects—that hinder the development and maintenance, as opportunities of improvements …

Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality
of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements …

When using object-oriented frameworks it is easy to overlook certain important method calls
that are required at particular places in code. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive set …