Deriving object typestates in the presence of inter-object references
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Modular Pluggable Analyses for Data Structure Consistency
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Joint 11th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 15th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-13) 2007
Modular typestate checking of aliased objects
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications
Multiparty asynchronous session types
Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Typestate-like analysis of multiple interacting objects
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Joint 12th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 17th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-17)
Checking Framework Interactions with Relationships
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Mining Hierarchical Scenario-Based Specifications
ASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Automatic Generation of Object Usage Specifications from Large Method Traces
ASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Online inference and enforcement of temporal properties
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Mining parametric specifications
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
An empirical study of object protocols in the wild
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A staged static program analysis to improve the performance of runtime monitoring
ECOOP'07 Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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Object protocols are a commonly studied research problem, but there is little known about their usability in practice. In particular, there is little research to show that object protocols cause difficulty for developers. In this work, we use community forums to find empirical evidence that object protocols are burdensome for developers. We analyzed 427 threads from the Spring and ASP.NET forums and discovered that 69 were on a protocol violation. We found that violations of protocols result in unusual runtime behavior rather than exceptions in 45% of our threads, that questions took an average of 62 hours to resolve, and that even though 54% of questions were repeated violations of similar protocols, the manifestation of the violation at runtime was different enough that developers could not search for similar questions.