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Systematic testing of object-oriented software turned out to be much more complex than testing conventional software. Especially the highly incremental and iterative development cycle demands both many more changes and partially implemented…

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Alias analysis has been an interesting research topic in verification and optimization of programs. The undecidability of determining whether two expressions in a program may reference to the same object is the main source of the challenges…

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This paper reviews some programming techniques in R that have proved useful, particularly for substantial projects. These include several versions of object-oriented programming, used in a large number of R packages. The review tries to…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-09-12 John M. Chambers

We propose some slight additions to O-O languages to implement the necessary features for using Deductive Object Programming (DOP). This way of programming based upon the manipulation of the Production Tree of the Objects of Interest,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Francois Colonna

A unifying approach to software and hardware design generated by ideas of Idempotent Mathematics is discussed. The so-called idempotent correspondence principle for algorithms, programs and hardware units is described. A software project…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. L. Litvinov , V. P. Maslov , A. Ya. Rodionov

A unit test is a method for verifying the accuracy and the proper functioning of a portion of a program. This work consists to study the relation and the approaches to test Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) programs and to propose a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-12-21 Martin Levesque

There are many techniques and tools to prove termination of C programs, but up to now these tools were not very powerful for fully automated termination proofs of programs whose termination depends on recursive data structures like lists.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jera Hensel , Jürgen Giesl

This paper presents a study aiming to analyse the design strategies of experts in object-oriented programming. We report an experiment conducted with four experts. Each subject solved three problems. Our results show that three strategies…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Sophie Chatel , Françoise Détienne

In the paper a new programming construct, called concept, is introduced. Concept is pair of two classes: a reference class and an object class. Instances of the reference classes are passed-by-value and are intended to represent objects.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-01-03 Alexandr Savinov

A circular program creates a data structure whose computation depends upon itself or refers to itself. The technique is used to implement the classic data structures circular and doubly-linked lists, threaded trees and queues, in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lloyd Allison

For the right application, the use of programming paradigms such as functional or logic programming can enormously increase productivity in software development. But these powerful paradigms are tied to exotic programming languages, while…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 M. H. van Emden , S. C. Somosan

Compared to functions in mathematics, functions in programming languages seem to be under classified. Functional programming languages based on the lambda calculus famously treat functions as first-class values. Object-oriented languages…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Lloyd Allison

Accurate programming is a practical approach to producing high quality programs. It combines ideas from test-automation, test-driven development, agile programming, and other state of the art software development methods. In addition to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Walid Taha , Veronica Gaspes , Rex Page

Constraint-logic object-oriented programming provides a useful symbiosis between object-oriented programming and constraint-logic search. The ability to use logic variables, constraints, non-deterministic search, and object-oriented…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Jan C. Dageförde , Herbert Kuchen

Specification languages are essential in deductive program verification, but they are usually based on first-order logic, hence less expressive than the programs they specify. Recently, trace specification logics with fixed points that are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Niklas Heidler , Reiner Hähnle

The advantages of mixed approach with using different kinds of programming techniques for symbolic manipulation are discussed. The main purpose of approach offered is merge the methods of object oriented programming that convenient for…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

Existing refinement calculi provide frameworks for the stepwise development of imperative programs from specifications. This paper presents a refinement calculus for deriving logic programs. The calculus contains a wide-spectrum logic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Hayes , Robert Colvin , David Hemer , Paul Strooper , Ray Nickson

Most of open-source software systems become available on the internet today. Thus, we need automatic methods to label software code. Software code can be labeled with a set of keywords. These keywords in this paper referred as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen

The points-to problem is the problem of determining the possible run-time targets of pointer variables and is usually considered part of the more general aliasing problem, which consists in establishing whether and when different…

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The concept of functionality oriented programming is proposed, and some of its aspects are discussed, such as: (1) implementation independent basic types and generic collection types; (2) syntax requirements and recommendations for…

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