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Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool A Thesis in TCC 402 Presented to The Faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Virginia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Science by Michael Peck March 25, 2004 On my honor as a University student, on this assignment I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid as defined by the Honor Guidelines for Papers in TCC Courses. ___________________________________________ Approved ________________________________ (Technical Advisor) Professor David Evans Approved ________________________________ (TCC Advisor) Professor Claire Chantell Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Preface I'd like to thank my technical advisor, David Evans, for introducing me to the thesis topic, providing me with relevant comments and feedback, and supporting my work on this project during the summer of 2003. I'd also like to thank my TCC advisors, Bryan Pfaffenberger and Claire Chantell, for their assistance with preparing this document. This project would not have been possible without the support of Derek Leach of ITC Labs and Classrooms, who went above and beyond the call of duty by helping me install new versions of the ESC/Java plugin on the ITC lab computers well after the ITC deadline for software installations had past. Many revisions to the software were necessary throughout the course of the fall 2003 semester, and Derek was very helpful in pushing revised copies of the plugin to the lab machines as needed. Thanks also to Chris Frost for being the not-so-anonymous test subject for the plugin's usability evaluation. Last but not least, I'd like to thank the students and assistant coaches of CS 201J in fall 2002 and fall 2003 for their participation and feedback. ii Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Table of Contents Preface................................................................................................................................. ii Table of Contents............................................................................................................... iii Abstract .............................................................................................................................. iv Chapter 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Statement of Thesis................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Problem Background and Rationale ......................................................................... 1 1.2.1 ESC/Java ............................................................................................................ 1 1.2.2 Software Engineering Education and CS 201J .................................................. 3 1.2.3 Eclipse................................................................................................................ 4 1.2.4 ESC/Java Plugin for Eclipse .............................................................................. 5 1.2.5 Social and Ethical Contexts of the Project......................................................... 6 1.3 Overview of Technical Report.................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2: Background and Motivation.............................................................................. 7 Chapter 3: ESC/Java Plugin for Eclipse ........................................................................... 10 Chapter 4: User Experience .............................................................................................. 16 Chapter 5: Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 19 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 21 iii Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Abstract The Extended Static Checker for Java (ESC/Java) static analysis tool examines Java source code looking for errors that could lead to runtime exceptions. ESC/Java also has the ability to check annotations placed in source code by programmers that express design decisions about how their code works. Although ESC/Java was developed for industry programmers, these features make ESC/Java a powerful tool for use to teach software engineering concepts. Unfortunately, as a command-line tool, ESC/Java is not tightly integrated with any integrated development environments (IDEs) that are regularly used by developers to write and test software. Also, ESC/Java's warning messages, which provide details about coding errors that it found, can be difficult for students (and even experienced software developers) to understand. Students may also be unsure of how to write annotations to describe their code. My project analyzes the above problems with ESC/Java and alleviates some of them by creating a plugin to run ESC/Java from within the Eclipse IDE. iv Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Statement of Thesis The Extended Static Checker for Java (ESC/Java) static analysis tool examines Java source code looking for implementation errors. It can be a useful tool for teaching software engineering principles to computer science students. As a command-line tool, ESC/Java can be difficult for students (and even experienced software developers) to use. Integrating ESC/Java with the Eclipse IDE solves some of ESC/Java's usability problems. 1.2 Problem Background and Rationale 1.2.1 ESC/Java ESC/Java is a static analysis tool developed by Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (now HP Research). It analyzes properties of software source code without actually executing the code. ESC/Java can discover common coding mistakes that could, under a certain flow of execution, cause a program to act unexpectedly (and likely terminate with a runtime exception). These coding mistakes are generally not found by compilers and without static analysis would potentially only be discovered at runtime. Some of the problems ESC/Java can discover include: • Possible division by zero • Possible negative array index • Array index possibly too large • Possible attempt to allocate array of negative length • Possible null dereference 1 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 ESC/Java can also use programmer-supplied annotations inside source code documenting design and implementation decisions. Using these annotations, it attempts to determine if the source code complies with the intentions of the programmer. ESC/Java is a powerful tool but has seen most of its use inside research labs only. Usability problems could be what is preventing ESC/Java from being used in commercial software development. The use of ESC/Java allows software flaws to be detected in the implementation phase of software development, instead of during the testing phase, or even worse, in the maintenance phase (after the software has already been released). Flaws in software are much cheaper to correct the earlier they are detected in the development cycle. HP Research mostly halted its work on ESC/Java in 2001, but the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands resumed its development in 2003. One potential drawback with using static analysis tools is that they have theoretical limits on their abilities [8]. ESC/Java is both unsound and incomplete. Unsoundness means that ESC/Java cannot catch all programming errors. Incompleteness means that ESC/Java will sometimes mistakenly point out an error where none exists. Software developers cannot assume that their code is bug-free simply because ESC/Java found no mistakes. Developers must still consider using other verification techniques such as code inspections and unit testing. Furthermore, when a software developer encounters an ESC/Java warning message, the developer must consider the possibility that it is a spurious warning (false positive). Fortunately, continued development of static analysis tools will decrease the likelihood of false positives and false negatives. 2 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 1.2.2 Software Engineering Education and CS 201J CS 201J, a software engineering course at the University of Virginia, was first taught in Fall 2002 and was taught again in Fall 2003. It is typically taken by second- year students. The class teaches software engineering with a strong emphasis on producing secure and reliable code by performing careful design, specification, implementation, and testing. Many of the problem sets involve using ESC/Java to discover and correct flaws in given software source code. Students also use ESC/Java annotations to carefully specify the expected behavior of their own code as they write it. Students then check their code with ESC/Java to make sure it meets the given specification. For each problem found by ESC/Java, a warning message is outputted with a description of the problem and the location in the source code where ESC/Java believes the problem exists. Unfortunately, these warning messages can be difficult for programmers to understand. A warning could also involve several sections of code, all located in different files. When presented with an ESC/Java warning, a programmer may be unsure of the best way to fix the problem behind the warning. For example, some kind of modification to their source code could be necessary to fix the problem. Or, just adding an annotation might be sufficient. ESC/Java is a command line tool. Most programmers are accustomed to working in graphical integrated development environments (IDEs), which attempt to make the process of writing, compiling, and testing source code as easy as possible. Expecting programmers to manually invoke ESC/Java from a command line every time they want to use it to analyze their source code is impractical, as it would make it difficult for programmers to integrate ESC/Java into their development process. 3 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Learning how to write annotations for ESC/Java has the side benefit of encouraging programmers to reason about the specification of their software before actually implementing code. Computer science courses often mention the need to specify software before implementation to students. However, with the small programs that students write in these classes, they can easily fail to see the importance of specification [7]. By using ESC/Java, students can get instant feedback about whether or not their code meets the specification that they wrote. In the real world, especially today when software is more likely to be Internet- accessible, accidental and even malicious inputs need to be expected and correctly handled. Information security experts claim that security must be a fundamental part of software design, rather than just an afterthought. Students often consider software to be finished when it produces the correct output for a few test cases. Unfortunately, much of today's software is buggy, unreliable, and insecure. Students need to be taught in software engineering courses to attempt to logically reason about the correctness of their software under many potential input cases. Software engineering courses must stress the importance of producing secure, reliable, and easily maintainable software. 1.2.3 Eclipse Eclipse is an open source IDE primarily developed by Object Technology International (now owned by IBM). It is primarily used for developing Java software, but its architecture is designed to be flexible through the use of plugins, which can be written by any third party to extend the functionality of Eclipse. Plugins exist, for instance, to allow Eclipse to be used to develop software using various other programming languages besides Java. Most plugins are released as open source, meaning the source code to the 4 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 plugin is made freely available to its users. Users can make changes and improvements to the plugin, or adapt its code for use in other projects. This ability to adapt the code of existing plugins greatly simplified the task of writing an ESC/Java plugin for Eclipse. 1.2.4 ESC/Java Plugin for Eclipse For each potential problem found by ESC/Java, a warning message is outputted with a description of the problem and the location in the source code where ESC/Java believes the problem exists. Unfortunately, these warning messages can be difficult for programmers to understand. A warning could also involve several sections of code, all located in different files. When presented with an ESC/Java warning, a programmer could be unsure of the best way to fix the problem behind the warning. For example, some kind of modification to their source code could be necessary to fix the problem. Or, just adding an annotation might be sufficient. Also, if programmers are running ESC/Java from the command line, they need to examine its output, read the file names and line numbers where problems exist, and manually jump to the code inside their editor. An ESC/Java plugin for Eclipse should attempt to alleviate as many of these shortcomings as possible. Most software engineering lifecycles consist of five phases: requirements analysis, specification and design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Most problems in software are introduced in the beginning steps of the lifecycle, but they are often not detected until the testing or maintenance phases. However, the problems become much more expensive to correct the later they are found, especially if they are not found until the maintenance phase, after the product has shipped. By using a tool like ESC/Java, problems can potentially be found and corrected during the implementation phase of software development. Implementing ESC/Java to 5 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 run within Eclipse every time the compiler is invoked means that programmers will immediately see ESC/Java's warning messages and correct the problems that it finds. 1.2.5 Social and Ethical Contexts of the Project Our lives are impacted every day by the effects of buggy software. For example, an Internet worm targeting a version of Windows forced Maryland to close all of its Department of Motor Vehicles offices for a day in August 2003 [1]. Another Internet worm targeting Windows machines caused a widespread Bank of America ATM failure [4]. In the past, the software industry has not considered writing secure software to be a priority, though this is beginning to change. If static analysis tools like ESC/Java are easier to use, they could potentially be integrated into the software development process followed by industry. 1.3 Overview of Technical Report Chapter 2 reviews relevant literature related to static analysis tools, their usability, and the use of static analysis tools in computer science education. Chapter 3 discusses some of ESC/Java's shortcomings and how an ESC/Java plugin for Eclipse will alleviate these. The process used to develop the plugin will then be described, followed in chapter 4 by an evaluation of the plugin's usability and effectiveness. The report also describes why ESC/Java and similar tools are useful in software engineering education, using the University of Virginia's CS 201J course as an example. Chapter 5 concludes the report with recommendations and suggestions for future work. 6 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Chapter 2: Background and Motivation The literature contains many sources describing formal methods and static analysis. However, there is a very limited amount of literature specifically studying the usability of static analysis tools or about the use of static analysis tools in computer science education. Jeanette Wing argues [14] that formal methods, defined by her as "the specification and verification of hardware and software systems", should be closely tied into undergraduate computer science courses. She states that her "ideal is to get to the point where computer scientists use formal methods without even thinking about it." She mentions the importance of tools, including ESC/Java, for formal methods instruction and makes the insight that while mathematicians will work with just paper and pencil, computer scientists are used to using software-based tools such as graphical user interfaces and compilers to help them work out problems. In some ways, compilers can be used "without even thinking about it." Eclipse [12], for example, automatically recompiles source code whenever a source code file is changed and saved. Any problems found during compilation are displayed at the bottom of the screen in a "Problems View" for the programmer to examine and fix. Unlike other IDEs, Eclipse tends to stay out of the programmer's way, yet still offers timesaving features to make the programmer's job easier, such as keyword and syntax coloring, context specific coding assistance, and automatic code formatting. Eclipse was built from the ground up with support for plugins. Plugins are modules that programmers can develop relatively easily to extend the functionality of Eclipse. For example, the Checkclipse plugin [13] analyzes the style of Java code (as opposed to the code's 7 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 functionality) and reports problems alongside the Java compiler's error and warning messages in the "Problems View" as described above. Work was done at HP Research (known as DEC at the time) to improve the usefulness of ESC/Java's warning messages. ESC/Java utilizes a theorem prover, which produces a counterexample showing where possible mistakes in the code exist. Converting the theorem prover's output to an understandable message that programmers can use to correct their mistakes is a difficult problem. Todd Millstein [11] came up with methods to extract a code trace from the ESC/Java theorem prover's counterexample output. The code trace shows programmers the specific path through the code that causes a problem to occur, allowing programmers to more easily correct the problem. JML [2], the Java Modeling Language, can be used by software developers to formally document design decisions they make while implementing Java classes. ESC/Java's annotation language resembles the language of JML in many ways, and ESC/Java is currently being updated to fully comply with JML. A verification tool called JACK (Java Applet Correctness Kit) [3], created by Gemplus, also uses annotations specified in JML to attempt to prove properties about Java code. The developers of JACK, understanding the importance of making their formal methods approach available to programmers of all levels of expertise and the importance of letting programmers work in a familiar environment, have integrated JACK into Eclipse by creating a plugin. The Fluid Project at Carnegie Mellon University [9] has created a prototype tool that performs static analysis of source code to give its programmers some assurance about the software's properties. The project has focused on making its tools usable by common software developers with minimal effort. In order to pursue this goal, the 8 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 project created a plugin for Eclipse. The plugin features a "Code Assurance Information" view inside Eclipse showing properties, such as potential race conditions, in the analyzed Java source code. Like ESC/Java, Fluid uses programmer-supplied annotations documenting design decisions. ESC/Java has been used at a few universities for teaching purposes. At the University of Virginia, ESC/Java is used in CS 201J, a software engineering course taken mainly by second-year engineering students. Problem sets were designed to show students the value of static analysis in developing software. Several problem sets require students to use ESC/Java annotations to document design decisions made while coding. The students were asked to run ESC/Java against their code and fix any warnings or errors reported before submitting the code for grading. ESC/Java is also used for teaching a course on software specification at Kansas State University. An advanced programming course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is using ESC/Java along with some of the University of Virginia course materials. 9 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Chapter 3: ESC/Java Plugin for Eclipse This chapter documents the development methodology followed in the creation of the ESC/Java plugin for Eclipse. Students in the first offering of CS 201J in Fall 2002 developed Java code using the Windows command-line interface, running both ESC/Java and the Sun JDK from the command prompt. In Fall 2002, we were unable to find a good Java development environment that we could encourage students to use. For the Fall 2003 offering of the course, partly due to the struggles students had working from the command prompt, we decided to use a graphical user interface. We first evaluated the DrJava IDE from Rice University, which was developed with educational use in mind, and we even easily developed an ESC/Java plugin to run within DrJava. However, for various reasons we decided against DrJava and turned to the Eclipse project. Eclipse is a much more powerful development environment than DrJava and would be more likely to be found in a commercial software development setting. It has many more features and also runs much quicker and more smoothly than DrJava. These benefits of Eclipse also added complexity when we decided to add support for ESC/Java to Eclipse. Fortunately, Eclipse is designed from the ground up to be extensible using plugins, which latch on to "extension points" within Eclipse to add functionality. However, there was still a huge learning curve involved in determining how to write the ESC/Java plugin. Eclipse is open source. All of the source code for Eclipse is freely available, making it possible for a developer to see how various parts of Eclipse work. Since Eclipse is such a large project, availability of the source to Eclipse was not in itself 10 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 enough to learn how to write a new plugin. To find a place to begin, I searched various Eclipse web sites, looking for an already existing plugin with similar functionality to what an ESC/Java plugin would need. I came across the Checkclipse plugin, which runs Checkstyle against Java code. Checkstyle looks for violations of various aesthetic coding issues which can make source code hard for humans to read. Checkclipse automatically runs every time the code is compiled, and upon finding a violation adds a message to Eclipse's "Problems View" alongside the compiler's warnings and errors. I knew that an ESC/Java plugin would need to do the same thing, only instead of running Checkstyle, it would run ESC/Java and interpret ESC/Java's output, placing the output in the "Problems View". Checkclipse is open source, licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The license allows me to make and release modifications to Checkclipse. I removed all of the code in Checkclipse referring to Checkstyle. I then added code to make the plugin execute ESC/Java instead and interpret its results. I also changed the Preferences and Properties menus to allow users to specify the location of the ESC/Java installation on their system and to decide on a project-by-project basis whether or not ESC/Java should be used or not. Checkclipse incorporated the code to Checkstyle within the plugin, but because ESC/Java is a large piece of software with a complicated installation required, I chose to make the ESC/Java plugin depend on ESC/Java being installed separately on the computer. The ESC/Java plugin executes ESC/Java as a separate program. Since the software was to be installed on the ITC lab computers and used for other purposes besides just CS 201J software development, the plugin must be explicitly enabled on software projects for which it is to be used. 11 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 When ESC/Java is run against Java source code files, it produces detailed warning messages about problems that are found. A message, such as "possible null deference", is printed. Then, the segment of the code that the message applies to is printed out. Then, other relevant sections of the code are printed out. Eclipse's Problems View is only designed for simple compiler warning and error messages consisting of the name of the source file where the problem occurred, the line number, and a brief one-line message. However, ESC/Java's messages consist of multiple lines and refer to multiple areas of source code, potentially spread out among several files. Interpreting these messages in Eclipse proved to be the most complicated task in developing the plugin. We took the approach of representing each line of an ESC/Java warning message as an individual "problem" in the problems view, and put numbers in front of each description so they would sort in order and be seen as the user as representing a single ESC/Java warning message. This approach, depicted in Figure 3.1, was extremely confusing to users, as they expect each problem to be shown only once, and the messages weren't always sorted properly. This limitation was in place with the version of the ESC/Java plugin used for CS 201J in Fall 2003. The usability issues with this approach forced us to partially abandon the plugin and tell students how to run ESC/Java in a text console within Eclipse, which got rid of advantages like being able to click on warning messages and have the editor jump to the relevant code. 12 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Figure 3.1: Illustration of an older revision of the ESC/Java plugin, as used in CS 201J in Fall 2003. The final approach to displaying the messages that we took was to create a separate Eclipse view to show the ESC/Java warning messages. We still use the Problems View to show the first line of each message, which indicates the general problem. The "ESC/Java Result View", as we called it, shows the first line of each message and allows users to click on an expansion button to view further lines of any message. With this approach, the Problems View is still somewhat useful, but the ESC/Java Result View must be used to get more details. We did not want to create a separate view, which clutters up the Eclipse workbench, but it proved to be necessary due to a lack of flexibility with extending the Problems View. Double-clicking on a message 13 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 in the ESC/Java Result View will make the Eclipse editor jump to the relevant section of the source code. Problem sets and other course materials using ESC/Java were developed for use in CS 201J at the University of Virginia. These problem sets are freely available for download at the CS 201J web site and are being used by software engineering courses at other universities. Problem Set 2: "Using Data Abstractions" introduces students to ESC/Java by showing how it can be used to find programming mistakes in a given piece of software, AverageLength.java. Problem Set 2 is described in further detail in the Results chapter, as it was used to examine the usability of the ESC/Java plugin. Problem Set 3: "Implementing Data Abstractions" introduces students to understanding ESC/Java annotations describing design decisions; specifically, introducing students to how invariants can be used to specify the desired behavior of a data abstraction. Problem Set 4: "Designing with Data Abstractions" asks students to create their own data abstractions to solve a problem, specifically, to find solutions to the Cracker Barrel peg game. Students must provide specifications for the data abstractions they create, and write ESC/Java annotations documenting these specifications. 14 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Figure 3.2: Illustration of the newest revision of the ESC/Java plugin. 15 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Chapter 4: User Experience We carried out an informal evaluation to gauge the effectiveness of the ESC/Java plugin for Eclipse. A volunteer, a fourth-year computer science student familiar with Java (but who had not previously used ESC/Java) was given a Java source file with several problems. The source file, AverageLength.java, was taken from CS 201J Problem Set 2. The AverageLength program takes a text input file consisting of lines in the format "name: value" where name is a baby's name and value is the percentage of babies born in a certain year with that name. The program contains several problems. Some of these problems are very subtle: the program will execute properly in most cases but will fail under certain conditions. These problems might not be revealed during testing or even during inspection of the source code. However, the problems are revealed by ESC/Java. This problem set demonstrates the usefulness of ESC/Java to students in the course. The first problem detected by ESC/Java is a lack of bounds checking. The AverageLength program takes as an argument the name of a file to be analyzed. However, it never checks to make sure that a filename is actually provided. If the program is run with no arguments, an exception will occur and the program will crash. The second problem is a precondition violation. A loop in the program accesses all of the baby names and percentage values (stored in a table) to average the values. Due to a typo in a loop's termination condition, the loop executes one too many times, and attempts to access the table of baby names and values with an index value one too high. The table has a precondition stating that the index value used cannot exceed the number of items in the table. ESC/Java detects the possible violation of this precondition. The third problem is a potential division by zero. When the AverageLength program finally computes the 16 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 average length of each name, it divides the total length by the number of names. If no names exist, a division by zero occurs, causing an exception. In the CS 201J problem set, students are asked to explain what problems in the program are causing the ESC/Java warning messages. They are also asked to give example situations that would cause exceptions with the problems in place. Then, students are asked to correct the problems. To carry out our usability experiment on the ESC/Java plugin, a subject was asked to complete the above portion of the CS 201J problem set. He sat in front of a computer in the ITC Stacks computer lab. It already had Eclipse running with the AverageLength program open. The ESC/Java plugin was enabled and the ESC/Java Result View was open. He was observed while carrying out the tasks, with careful attention paid to any malfunctions that he ran into. He was instructed that the software was the subject of the evaluation, not him. He was asked to speak his thoughts aloud as they went through the tasks, and careful notes were taken about his performance. After the completion of the tasks, the subject was asked to describe his experience with the ESC/Java plugin and suggestions for improvement. The student took 5 to 10 minutes to complete the tasks. He began by carefully reading the instructions given to him. He then examined the ESC/Java Result View and began double-clicking on its messages, which made the Eclipse editor jump to the relevant code. Using ESC/Java's messages, he explained the problems with the code. He then corrected the "Precondition possibly not established" problem. He did not realize that saving a file in Eclipse makes it automatically compile the file and run ESC/Java against it. This fact was explained to him, as well as the fact that he needed to click "Refresh" within the ESC/Java Result View to make the view refresh with the changes. He then explained the problems with the other two messages 17 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 reported by ESC/Java and how to fix them. He was asked to explain some of the confusing aspects of the plugin: • He thought the ESC/Java Result View should automatically refresh. • The ESC/Java Result View showed extra lines within each problem's report that weren't necessarily relevant. • He disagreed with the way Eclipse automatically rebuilds projects when source files are saved (this feature can be disabled by the user). • He thought the plugin should jump to the relevant column of the code where a problem exists in addition to the relevant line of code. • He suggested sorting ESC/Java's warning messages by type, importance, function name or file name. • He suggested an option to not run ESC/Java automatically and instead make it run whenever the user specifically requests it, since ESC/Java can sometimes be slow to run, especially for large files. 18 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Chapter 5: Conclusions ESC/Java's use in CS 201J has shown that it is a useful tool for teaching software engineering concepts. However, usability problems have interfered with its use. The ESC/Java plugin for Eclipse should allow students to begin using ESC/Java more easily. It displays the results found by ESC/Java within Eclipse and allows students to quickly jump to the relevant location in the source code where each problem is found. Any tool, like ESC/Java, that can help teach students the importance of creating secure and reliable software should be a strong component of any software engineering course. In the future, the role of ESC/Java in other computer science courses should be examined. For example, ESC/Java could be useful in data structures and algorithms courses. Much room for future work on the ESC/Java plugin still remains. First of all, the plugin does not extend the text editor within Eclipse. A good future enhancement for the plugin would be to make it extend the editor to recognize ESC/Java annotations, instead of just seeing them as Java comments. The annotations should be colored differently and should be formatted properly. Also, the plugin would then be able to check the syntax of ESC/Java annotations as well as assist the programmer in writing them, by, for example, providing auto-completion capability. Another useful addition would be to make use of Eclipse's Quick Fix capability, which suggests code modifications to the programmer that would fix warning messages reported by the Java compiler. Some ESC/Java warning messages can easily be corrected with a minor code modification or the addition of an annotation. Quick Fix options should be provided by the plugin to programmers to make these modifications for them. Last of all, ESC/Java warning messages often include a backtrace through the program code. For example, if a precondition is violated, 19 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 ESC/Java prints out the code segment where the precondition is violated, followed by the code location where the precondition is actually defined. Clicking on the line of the warning message showing where the precondition is defined should jump to that location in the source code. The test subject's suggestions, shown in chapter 4, are also valuable ideas that should be incorporated into future versions of the ESC/Java plugin. 20 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 Bibliography [1] Associated Press. "Maryland DMV Set to Reopen." August 23, 2002. http://www.foxnewschannel.com/story/0,2933,94583,00.html [2] Lilian Burdy, Yoonsik Cheon, David Cok, et al. An overview of JML tools and applications. Eighth International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems. June 2003. [3] Lilian Burdy. JACK (Java Applet Correctness Kit). http://www.gemplus.com/smart/r_d/trends/jack.html [4] CNN. "Computer worm grounds flights, blocks ATMs." January 26, 2003. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/internet.atta ck/index.html [5] Compaq Systems Research Center. Extended Static Checking for Java. http://research.compaq.com/SRC/esc/ [6] David Evans. Teaching Software Engineering Using Lightweight Analysis. NSF CCLI Proposal. June 2001. [7] David Evans and Michael Peck. Simulating Critical Software Engineering. University of Virginia Computer Science Technical Report. [8] Cormac Flanagan, et al. Extended Static Checking for Java. PLDI, June 2002. [9] Aaron Greenhouse, et al. Using Eclipse to Demonstrate Positive Static Assurance of Java Program Concurrency Design Intent. http://www.fluid.cs.cmu.edu:8080/Fluid/FluidOOPSLAposter.pdf [10] K. Rustan M. Leino, Greg Nelson, and James B. Saxe. ESC/Java User's Manual. Compaq Systems Research Center Technical Note 2000-002. 21 Peck – Improving the Usability of the ESC/Java Static Analysis Tool – March 25, 2004 [11] Millstein, Todd. Towards More Informative ESC/Java Warning Messages. In Selected 1999 SRC Summer Intern Reports, compiled by James Mason, Technical Compaq Systems Research Center Technical Note 1999-003, November 1999. [12] Object Technology International. Eclipse Platform Technical Overview. February 2003. http://www.eclipse.org/whitepapers/eclipse- overview.pdf [13] Marco van Meegen. Checkclipse plugin for Eclipse. http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/checkclipse [14] Jeanette Wing. Weaving Formal Methods into the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum. 8th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, May 2000. 22
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Must-Visit Napa Wineries
Shramsberg Vinyards, for the American Sparkling and there Howell Mountain (Diamond Mountain?) Cab (fantastic history and tour of caves plus a lovely property) and Joseph Phelps for an overall view of winemaking in their tour and tasting program, great site for a pinic (make reservations).
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I love Duckhorn. The way they present their wines is excellent. It's a pretty setting and the wine is fantastic. Be aware that a reservation is recommended. I also enjoy Domaine Chandon mostly because of their lovely patio. The sparkling wine is not unusual but tastes oh so delicious when enjoyed out on the patio.
I prefer the smaller wineries of the Spring Mountain district. More about the wine, less about marketing.
I love Luna on Silverado. I am even a member of their wine club. They have friendly and attentive counter service and they make mostly italian variatals. They have a great Sangiovese and you can take a tasting up to their tower overlooking their vineyard. Silverado is also a bit off the touristy beaten path.
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As long as he doesn't pull the trigger after the Miami visit I'm glad we are one of the last schools he will make it out too. Time to reel him in!
Sandland is very composed and mature about this whole process. I don't think he'll talk favorites too much until all visits are made. I personally don't think he makes a decision until a week or two after all visits are finished, unless of course he decides on Tech - which is his last visit.
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On this page is information on Disney's Polynesian Resort, including pictures of the view from every hotel room, pictures and video from inside Polynesian rooms, a list of amenities, restaurant reviews and dining menus with prices, pool photos and reviews, reader comments, childcare options, and more. Last updated: February 24, 2014
Use our exclusive Room Finder to see a resort map and find a great room!
The South Pacific tropics are re-created at this Deluxe resort. The Polynesian consists of 11 two- and three-story Hawaiian "longhouses" situated around the four-story Great Ceremonial House. Buildings at the Polynesian feature wood tones, with exposed-beam roofs and tribalinspired geometric inlays in the cornices. The Great Ceremonial House contains restaurants, shops, and a rainforest atrium lobby with a rocky waterfall and more than 70 species of tropical plants. Spread across 39 acres along Seven Seas Lagoon, the resort has three white-sand beaches, some with volleyball courts. Its pool complex likewise captures the South Pacific theme. The Polynesian has no on-site fitness center, but its guests are welcome at the Grand Floridian's facility a short quarter-mile walk or 2-minute monorail ride away. Landscaping is superb, with periodic refurbishment, so garden-view rooms are generally superior to garden- or standard-view rooms at other resorts.
Although the Polynesian is one of Disney's oldest resorts, periodic refurbishments keep it well maintained. Refurbishments started in 2013 include new paint, carpet, headboards, soft goods, and bathroom designs for all rooms. The new rooms have light-green walls and white bed comforters with green-and-brown tropical-print coverlets.
Rooms retain the built-in closets and dressers with flat-panel televisions from the 2007 refurbishment. Each dresser includes two horizontal shelves above and below the TV for extra storage capacity. The closets are spacious, light, and eminently functional. A nice touch on most of the furniture and woodwork is the textured surfaces (some of them carved). Lighting throughout the rooms, including that for the desks/work areas and beds, is still among the best on Disney property.
King beds were also added to some rooms in the 2013 update and can be booked directly instead of having to make a request. We're told that only some longhouses have the king beds, so your view may vary.
Bathrooms are well designed, albeit somewhat small. The 2013 redesign put in dual sinks for the old singles and added more open space to the whole bath. Shelves above and below sinks allow plenty of storage. Outward-curving shower rods add substantial elbow room without increasing its size. The bath's light fixtures are great.
Easily accessible by monorail are full-service restaurants at the Grand Floridian and Contemporary resorts, as well as restaurants in the Magic Kingdom. The Polynesian has a monorail station on-site and is within easy walking distance of the Transportation and Ticket Center. Bus service is available to other Disney destinations. Walking time to the bus- and monorail-loading areas from the most remote rooms is 8–11 minutes.
Some readers wouldn't stay anywhere else, as a family from Summerville, South Carolina, attests:
Polynesian was WONDERFUL. We were in the Tahiti building and could walk to the Transportation and Ticket Center to get on the buses to Disney's Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom without getting on the monorail. From now on, we will ONLY stay at the Polynesian. Well worth the extra $.
A family of four from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, writes:
Loved the Polynesian. Room was clean, and "mousekeeping" was always done before noon. The pool was fun, and having the monorail in the hotel made getting to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot very easy. The bus service to the other parks did seem rather slow, though—we waited 20–25 minutes for buses on at least three occasions.
A Maryland family of four found the guest-room soundproofing somewhat lacking:
Connecting rooms at the Polynesian were noisy. We took towels from the pool and stuffed them under the door to deaden the noise coming from the other room.
DVC Coming to the Polynesian
Disney has announced, that the Polynesian will be the next resort to get a Disney Vacation Club addition, starting in late 2013. The addition includes 15 three-bedroom Grand Villas, built on stilts and sitting just offshore of Tahiti in Seven Seas Lagoon. Expect noise and other impacts on the resort. Check tikimanpages.com, an unofficial website dedicated to the Poly, for more details.
Hotel | Definitely (+/- since last year) |
Disney's Polynesian Resort | 75% (-7%) |
Average for WDW hotels | 76% (+0%) |
Average for off-site hotels | 57% (+0%) |
Hotel | Definitely (+/- since last year) |
Disney's Polynesian Resort | 95% (+3%) |
Average for WDW hotels | 92% (+2%) |
Average for off-site hotels | 79% (-7%) |
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Good (and Not-So-Good) Rooms at Disney's Polynesian Resort
The Polynesian's 11 guest-room buildings, called longhouses, are spread over a long strip of land bordered by the monorail on one side and Seven Seas Lagoon on the other. All the buildings, except for the more recently added Tahiti, Rapa Nui, and Tokelau, were part of the original hotel, which opened with the Magic Kingdom in 1971. All buildings feature first-floor patios and third-floor balconies. The older buildings, comprising more than half the resort's rooms, have fake balconies on their second floors. (The newer buildings offer full balconies on both the second and third floors, and patios on the first.) A small number of patios in the first-floor rooms have views blocked by mature vegetation, but these patios provide more room than do the balconies on the third floor. If view is important and you're staying in one of the eight older longhouses, ask for a third-floor room.
Within the Great Ceremonial House are most restaurants and shops, as well as the resort lobby, guest services, and bus and monorail stations. Longhouses most convenient to the Great Ceremonial House (Fiji, Tonga suites, Rarotonga, Niue, and Samoa) offer views of the swimming complex, a small marina, or inner gardens. There are no lagoon views except for oblique views from the upper floors of Fiji and Samoa, Aotearoa, and Tokelau, and a tunnel view from Tonga (suites only). Samoa, however, by virtue of its proximity to the main swimming complex, is a good choice for families who plan to spend time at the pool. If your children are under age 8, request a first-floor room on the Nanea Volcano Pool side of Samoa.
You can specifically request a lagoon- or Magic Kingdom–view room at the Polynesian, if you're willing to pay extra. The best of these rooms are on the second and third floors in Tahiti, the third floor in Tuvalu, and, if you're staying in a concierge room, the first and third floors in Hawaii.
One family's experience in a concierge room proved advantageous:
The view was spectacular. Every night the Electrical Water Pageant was pulled across the lake right in front of our room. My kids loved it. Then, after the parade, we had a perfect view of the fireworks over Cinderella Castle.
There are some quirks in the way Disney categorizes room views at the Polynesian, and it's possible to get a view of the castle and fireworks while staying in a garden-view room. Second- and third-floor rooms in Tokelau (Rooms 2901–2913, 2939–2948, 3901–3913, and 3939–3948) offer you the best shot at sideways views of the castle and fireworks, though readers say taller palm trees may block even these upper rooms. First-floor rooms (1901–1913 and 1939–1948) may also have landscaping blocking some of the Magic Kingdom views, but the patio provides more room to move to find a better spot, too.
In addition to second-floor rooms in the older buildings (the buildings with fake balconies), also avoid the monorail-side rooms in Rarotonga and the parking-lot side of Rapa Nui. Garden-view rooms in Aotearoa are especially nice, but the monorail, though quiet, runs within spitting distance.
If you plan to spend a lot of time at Epcot, Tahiti and Rapa Nui are within easy walking distance of the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC) and the Epcot monorail. Even if you're going to the Magic Kingdom, it's a shorter walk from Tahiti and Rapa Nui to the TTC and Magic Kingdom monorail than to the monorail station at the Great Ceremonial House. Tuvalu, Fiji, and Aotearoa are the most distant accommodations from the Polynesian's bus stop. For large strollers or wheelchair access, take the ferry to the Magic Kingdom.
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Strengths | Weaknesses |
Relaxed and casual ambiance | Overly large and confusing layout |
Ferry service to Magic Kingdom | Walkways exposed to rain |
Romantic atmosphere | Noise from nearby motor speedway and ferry |
Exotic theme that children love | Front-desk inefficiency |
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Epcot monorail within walking distance | |
Transportation and Ticket Center adjoins resort | |
Redecorated rooms, among the nicest at WDW | |
Child care, children's programs, and character meals | |
Beach and marina | |
Excellent swimming complex | |
Recreational options |
Disney's Polynesian Resort Dining
- 'Ohana (Table Service)
- Barefoot Pool Bar (Bar or Lounge)
- Capt. Cook's (Counter Service)
- Kona Cafe (Table Service)
- Kona Island (Counter Service)
- Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show (Table Service)
- Tambu Lounge (Bar or Lounge)
Park | Commuting Times | Resort Transportation |
Magic Kingdom | 11 min |
Epcot | 38 min |
Hollywood Studios | 19 min |
Animal Kingdom | 19 min |
Num. Rooms | 847 |
Cost Range | $405-$3140 |
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Room Quality | B |
Check-in Efficiency | B+ |
Quietness of Room | B- |
Shuttle Service | B |
Hotel Pool | B |
Staff | A |
Food Court | C |
Overall | B |
Suites | Yes |
Concierge Floor | Yes |
Room Service | Yes |
Wired Internet | No |
Wireless Internet | Yes |
Fitness Center | No |
Water Sports | Yes |
Marina | Yes |
Beach | Yes |
Tennis | No |
Biking | Yes |
Shuttle to Parks | Yes |


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You might remember Lee Pace was on the short list, and even auditioned to play, Star-Lord in the James Gunn directed space epic for Marvel. Though he lost out to Chris Pratt to be the leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy, he got a good consolation prize- the film's villain.
According to The Wrap's Jeff Sneider, Pace is in final negotiations to play the villain in Disney and Marvel's first big space movie. It's not clear right now who the actor will play, but it's a safe bet that we will be hearing a lot more about it in the coming weeks. Pace, known for his outings in Twilight and The Hobbit, will face off against Chris Pratt's Star-Lord, Zoe Saldana's Gamora, and Dave Batista's Drax. This also seems to hint that the main villain won't be Thanos. That doesn't mean the Mad Titan won't be in the film, I just don't think Pace is going to be the man to bring him to life. What do you think? Any guesses on who he will play?
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A little too quiet? I couldn't be sure what that meant until I eventually realized what they were saying is that they didn't know how to market it so it was rejected. Well, after Susan Driscoll, then CEO for iUniverse made me an offer I couldn't refuse to publish the "quiet" little novel, I decided to see what I could do in way of marketing. Besides getting it into my local bookstore where it sold well over 750 copies, I managed to have it selected for several book clubs and did many events along the eastern seaboard. Yet, the coup I am most proud of for my print-on-demand "quiet" little novel was how I managed to get close to a half-page article in a newspaper that initially had no interest in talking to me. How did I do it?
My novel takes place in Upstate New York, not far from where I was scheduled to do a book signing. I wanted a crowd for this event and knew it would take more than placing an ad in the local paper; an article, on the other hand, would work. Wind turbine energy was creating much spirited debate in this region and because my novel has an environment theme, I contacted the newspaper's editor one last time and said I'd be happy to discuss the topic, since I was originally from the area. It wasn't long before she responded and scheduled an interview. The article was published a couple of days prior to my book signing. The thing is, even though discussing wind turbine energy was my pitch, only one sentence about it was in the piece, the rest was about my novel. Therefore, consider juxtaposing a real event with your storyline and see if it yields more attention than it otherwise would get. It's worth trying.
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Sophomore Denise Martin shot a career-high smallbore score against Navy on Saturday
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Release: 10/26/2013
Nebraska Rifle Sails Past Navy
NU vs. Navy Air Rifle-Oct. 26, 2013
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The No. 7 Nebraska rifle team fired a 4,631 to cruise by No. 11 Navy on Saturday. The Huskers finished with a smallbore score of 2,309 and an air rifle score of 2,322.
"It's always exciting to get your first win of the year, especially against a conference opponent," Coach Underwood said. "We had some personal bests in both smallbore and air rifle, but I believe we still have a big breakthrough in our team performance coming soon."
The Nebraska team was led in air rifle by freshman Lauren Phillips who finished with a career-high 585. Denise Martin led the Huskers in smallbore with a career-high 584. Freshman Rachel Martin contributed a 581 in smallbore, while junior Kelsey Hansen logged a 579 in air rifle. Sophomore Marissa Major also finished with a career-high score of 569 in smallbore.
Navy finished with a 2,275 in smallbore and a 2,315 in air rifle, for a team score of 4,590. Navy was led by Alex Berry, who ended with a 572 in smallbore and Jodi Cull-Host, who shot a 586 in air rifle.
The Huskers compete in their first away match next Saturday when they head to Kentucky to take on UT-Martin. The match is set to start at 8 a.m.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Springfield College Professor of Exercise Science and Sport Studies Samuel Headley is serving as principal investigator on a three-year, $120,000 research award from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The study focuses on collecting data on Springfield area patients being examined for oxidative stress in chronic kidney disease.
Headley is joined by Springfield College Assistant Professor of Exercise Science and Sport Studies Richard Wood as co-investigator in the research. Headley and Wood are among a select number of researchers across the country contributing to the Vanderbilt study.
"The overall goal of our research group is to improve the quality of life of chronic kidney disease patients by employing lifestyle modifications," said Headley. "For more than 10 years, we have worked closely with Dr. Michael Germain and his colleagues at Western New England Renal and Transplant Associates (WNERTA) to conduct these studies. Our capacity to participate in Vanderbilt's current multi-center trial would not have been possible without our collaboration with WNERTA. We are also indebted to Charles Milch and his colleagues in the Springfield College Physician Assistant Program, who provide essential medical coverage during our research sessions."
Participants in the study receive several weeks of supervised exercise in the exercise science and sport studies (ESSS) laboratory, nutrition counseling with a registered dietitian, and a stipend to compensate for their time and transportation costs. The ESSS laboratory is part of the Springfield College School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation and supports the Center for Wellness Education and Research.
"Springfield College being a site for this study is exciting for a couple of reasons," said Wood. "First, it is evidence of the increased research quality and productivity that we are currently experiencing. Second, this increased research activity is happening with the involvement of our undergraduate students, which provides outstanding educational opportunities unique to the College."
Springfield College graduate students in the ESSS department will benefit from direct experience in working with study subjects and through their local participation in carrying out the sophisticated research protocol designed by Vanderbilt. Locally, Springfield College is collaborating with Baystate Radiology and Imaging in providing bone density scans and results, a key study measure using dual-energy, x-ray absorptiometry equipment.
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The discovery of an extinct species of great ape resembling the recently-arrived 'human' has forced a radical rethink of the way the great apes are classified, and may prompt the creation of a completely new sub-family.
Recently uncovered at an archaeological dig in southern Impalawi, the new ape species appears morphologically distinct from the extant Panini, except for Pan pediobates, the Zebrican Gracile Plains Ape, with which it shares a number of common features, including a lack of sagittal crest, reduced occipital ridge, pronouncedly neotenous facial features and a relative shortening of the forelimbs.
The presence of items that may be primitive stone tools has also been noted, but archaeologists in the field are not willing to confirm the possibility.
A reclassification of Pan pediobates as Heme pediobates, along with the creation of the genus Heme to encompass both H. pediobates and the new discovery, tentatively named Heme habilis, is currently under consideration. The inclusion and classification of the human as Heme sapiens advena is also a distinct possibility.
Classification of the Pony and Related Species
sub-order Hippomorpha
└Genus Equus
├ Wild Horse Equus ferus
│ ├ Equestrian Wild Horse Equus ferus facies horrida
│ ├ Southern Wild Horse Equus ferus huwinima
│ └ Modern Horse Equus sapiens indeprensa
├ Modern Pony Equus nobilis
│ ├ Pegasus Pony Equus nobilis pegasus
│ ├ Earth Pony Equus nobilis lutus
│ ├ Unicorn Equus nobilis optima
│ ┆
│ └ Pseudo-pegacorn Equus nobilis pansimila
├ Zebra Equus zebra
│ └ Tribal Zebra Equus zebra sapiens
├ Donkey Equus asinus sordida
├ True Pegacorn (Alicorn) Equus panoptica
├ Northern Pony Equus brevis adipemus
└ Sea Pony (postulated) Equus bipes
Descent of the Pony
Whilst fossil evidence is sparse, the modern Pony is thought to have emerged in the Old World some 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. Other sapient equines are thought to have emerged at around the same time; given their close relation to similar non-sapient species, a common sapient ancestor for all sapient equines has been ruled out.
The earliest known ancestor of both E. nobilis and E. panoptica appears to be Equus magus crestatus. Several specimens of E. magus were discovered in the Bittish Isles, in caves near the town of Buckston. In many ways E. magus resembles a modern Earth Pony, with a similarly dense bone structure and robust body, though it has a number of archaisms such as an enlarged muzzle, smaller orbits, and a much smaller cranial capacity.
Close examination of surviving fossils has revealed several structures that appear to be analogous to magic-focussing structures found in modern ponies. The limbs and spine are threaded with numerous magum fossae, as is the dorsal skull and upper forehead, where a primitive horn-like structure can be found on several examples. A number of similar structures are found on the dorsal, forming a dual crest that is dense with fossae, accompanied by a rudimentary limb girdle, (fig a.) which appear to be analogous to vestigial structures found in the midlimbs of E. nobilis pegasus and E. panoptica. Similar vestigial structures occasionally appear in other modern ponies[1], indicating that this is either an ancestor of modern ponies or a very closely related sister of that ancestor.
fig. a: Reconstruction of E. magus crestatus
Following E. magus we find the appearance of Equus munda, the first pony to make use of primitive tools, as attested by the discovery of flint axe-heads in close proximity. E. munda appears to have had some rudimentary magical ability and was apparently able to "hold" small objects in its forehooves, which are riddled with magum fossae, likely indicating the presence of rudimentary structures analogous to those found in all modern ponies, whilst other structures found in E. magus appear to have receded or become entirely vestigial.
E. munda appears to be followed by several related species, all of which are now extinct, and Equus matercula robustus, the so-called Mother of Ponies, who once again bore close resemblance to the modern Earth Pony. E. matercula is taxonomically almost identical to modern ponies, though archaic and larger, with a similar cranial capacity, but still displaying slightly divergent orbits as a final remnant of her prey-species ancestry. A similar divergence occasionallymanifests in modern ponies as Buttermilk's Divergent Orbital Regression Syndrome.
From E. matercula we find Equus nobilis, all three subspecies of which diverged from E. matercula approximately 0.2 Ma ago, though no intermediate forms of either E. nobilis optima, or E. nobilis pegasus have been found.
Meanwhile, the evolution of the True Pegacorn took place in parallel to the Archaic Earth Pony in a nearly linear descent from E. magus crestatus.
The fossil data available indicates that the crest for which E. magus crestatus is named was soon adapted from its original purpose to serve first as a rudimentary gliding surface and then transformed, through a remarkable process of convergent evolution, into a fully functional analogue of an avian wing.
The limb girdle and wing both appear in a more defined form in Equus magus protopega (fig. b), though the wing is obviously non-functional and seems to act as a manipulatory limb of some sort. The primary spindle has elongated and jointed and a rudimentary grasping claw has appeared on the tip, whilst the other spindles have reduced to almost vestigial spines arrayed around the protoform "shoulder", where a few have extended to form protofeathers. The entire limb is strung with extremely fine magum fossae that appear similar to those found in the Pegasus wing, indicating at least limited ability to manipulate air and electrical phenomena.
fig. b: E. magus protopega with speculative use of midlimbs.
The fully-formed wing appears in Equus pegasus optiforma. At this point the wing seems to be adapted to gliding rather than flying and probably served as a way for E. pegasus optiforma to leap long distances or escape from predators. The claw remains in a reduced form, as it will do in every subsequent species to descend from this one.
As evidenced by the discovery of several intact, if brittle primary feathers at one optiforma site, the near-indestructible nature of the primary feathers is already apparent, a clear sign of the increasingly refined and complex magical use of the limb.
There has been some study on the possibility that E. pegasus optiforma was advanced enough to form a civilisation. Whilst some intriguing evidence has been found, there is little solid proof of the possibility.
Approximately 0.4 to 0.3 Ma B.P. sees the arrival of Equus aliparvus. Apart from its size, E. aliparvus was essentially identical to the modern True Pegacorn, E. panoptica, and presumably capable of very powerful magical manipulation. Studies of modern E. panoptica are, for obvious reasons, extremely limited so only rudimentary comparisons are possible.
Approximate comparison of E. nobilis pegasus, E. aliparvus and E. panoptica in profile.
Genetic studies indicate that the speciation of the modern pony into the three closely related sub-species of E. nobilis was a result of interbreeding between E. matercula and the now extinct E. aliparvus. This late hybridisation and subsequent speciation explains both the relatively sudden appearance of fully-developed wings in E. nobilis pegasus and the horn of E. nobilis optima, the generally more gracile appearance of the species, as well as a number of inter-related syndromes that occur in all sub-species of E. nobilis, most notably Snugglepuff-Alondro syndrome[2].
This syndrome in particular encourages further study of the genetic history of our species. Current studies indicate several possible avenues for further investigation that might reveal a potential cure for the syndrome, and further, more in-depth research will be required.
fig. c The descent of E. nobilis and E. panoptica
[1] Spiniform Wingroot and The Unicorn's Curse (more accurately known as an Inverse coniformic magum teratoma) are just two possible congenital defects thought to be caused by partial expression of vestigial magical organs. The former usually manifests as harmless nubs or spines behind the scapula, which can be removed with relatively simple surgery, though they can be dangerous to a pegasus in their more extreme form. The Unicorn's Curse, the growth of a vestigial corniform structure in the forebrain and an associated build-up of magical potential, is invariably fatal.
[2] "The study revealed that around 70% of male fœtuses either miscarry within a few days of fertilisation, or develop into a peculiar form of triploid that first divides into two structures, each containing a stable diploid, one containing the male sex chromosome and one the female, before ejecting the cells containing the male sex chromosome in the second week of the pregnancy." Snugglepuff, Alondro - High incidences of spontaneous abortion and sterility in male offspring and their likely causes - Harmony and Nature (1176, issue 787, p 21).
The Unicorns Curse is blatantly stolen from The All American Girl side stories.
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Evolutionary biology!
One thing to fix in the Linnean nomenclature though, you only capitalize the Genus names, as in Equus nobilis pegasus.
I'll place my attempts at assigning Linnean taxonomy on ponies in here.
>>1556444 Oh, yeah I thought for a second there you meant the guys had babies. I was all like, "What has magic done!" Thanks for clearing that up.
I like how you gave alicorn's a scientific explanation, rather than wrote them off as an uncommon anomaly that pony science couldn't explain. Though I guess they are that too... and male alicorn are apparently impossible.
Im going to print this out and slip it into the textbooks in the library.
What exactly was sexist? It strikes me as odd that someone who uses evolutionary terms dismisses the idea of roles created through dimorphism.
Equus Nobilis Optima ? I guess the first scientists must have been unicorns?
By the way, when they find a way to allow Lero's herd to have foals would they also be a different species? Maybe they would be classified as a chimera or something.
Oh, hello, I sensed some science occurring in the proximity of this fiction and I just had to check it out.
Yes, yeeesss!! More science chapters! Say it with me everyone,
I... knew the vast majority of the terminology presented before reading this chapter. What is wrong with me?
As a paleo/dinosaur/evolution enthusiast, this is relative AS HELL to my interests. Keep up the good work sir!
I like how you made the naming system similar, but very definitely different, and how Homo Sapiens has a different scientific name under their system.
Though now I'm curious as to how changelings fit into all this.
I think that it's extremely interesting that ponies had tool using limbs but essentially lost them as they evolved/interbred. Magic takes precedence over tools I suppose. Also find it interesting that they were a proto-pegacorn (Unisus?) until various interbreedings splits the race into 'breeds.'
That's if you get the gourmet pies.
If you want the "fruit" pie with honey that's 2b extra, but you don't want to try one without honey.
I like how you separated Equus Nobilis Pansimila and Equus Panoptica, although to be pedantic, the genus should be capitalized, but the species and subspecies shouldn't.
Equus nobilis pansimila
Equus panoptica
>>1556452 They must have existed at some point but it does seem like I've written them out of the world, doesn't it?
>>1556489 Who else would do science? Sticky mud ponies?
>>1556524>>1556549 That's the long and the short of it, yep.
>>1556699 Genius, that's what.
>>1556459 >>1557029 Changelings would probably be a separate family rather than a genus under Equidae. Polymorphidae or something.
>>1556984 Will do!
>>1557052>>1557064 Those wing hands are a bit freaky aren't they?
>>1557133 An that's cuttin' me own throat that is!
>>1557151 Blame the unicorns.
Nah, I'll go back and fix it in a sec. Thanks.Honestly, making this up gave me a much better idea of how to deal with Cadence. I think I like her this way.
By the way, I had literally never considered the idea of alicorns being a different species because of their comparative rarity. The number of individuals necessary for a genetically viable population is on the order of several thousand, and we've seen either two or three.
On the other hand, it does raise the very interesting analogy to Bdelloid Rotifers, which are animals that reproduce exclusively asexually (via parthogenesis), and are universally female.
I have an idea bubbling away that I might develop at some point, that involves E. aliparvus becoming, in essence, the pony version of the survivors of Atlantis. They had a relatively advanced civilisation that suddenly collapsed when they began to ascend to some sort of higher level of existence, possibly brought about by a conscious attempt to force their evolution through magic. Most of them just disappeared. A few became E. panoptica and the rest left the ruins of their home to mingle with the ponies. I haven't decided whether the genetic abnormalities would be caused by their experiments or just a result of plain old bad luck, though I'm leaning toward the latter.
But that's all for another day, I think.
I get that everything's been neatly sorted out, and you solved several fridge logic problems, but Snugglepuff? Really?
I know changelings look like ponies, but I'd say they share more qualities with insects and would therefor be a different genus.
I'd say changelings are an insect that that has evolved to resemble ponies making it easier to fool them and feed off of them, perhaps being pony kind's natural predator. Or they could have something along the lines of the evolutionary story the wraith from SG: Atlantis have.
How did this all come to be from a single (very interesting and story-driven but nevertheless) clopfic?
P.S. You forgot to classify the proper changelings :P
It only looks like that to you because you're a mammal. Changelings don't actually resemble insects in any real way but how humans stereotypically see insects. Flexible skin(which also means they'd need an internalized skeleton to live on land), only four limbs, lack of spiracles(necessitating that they breathe with lungs), teeth and the like all make them not particularly insect like.
My avatar and I approve of this chapter. Also, I really like the protoponies. Very cool designs there.
Technically, I'm studying to be a marine biologist, but I do know quite a bit about land animals as well.
Are you planning a chapter which documents or will give some reference to the history of Equestria's inequality in regards to gender and race? I really want to see if this is going to tie in with certain pony groupings [unicorn, Pegasi, earth pony] or certain cultures inflict on the matter.
Then I defer to your wisdom. I saw compound eyes and thought "bug".
Considering the Chrysalis has slitted pupils, and you don't actually see the hexagonal pattern that makes up compound eyes on the "drone" changelings... They might not even be compound eyes(although they're probably meant to be, it brings in all sorts of weird genetics questions when the males and females have an entirely different basic structure for their eyes). They might just happen to have unusual looking eyes that still work basically the same as pony eyes. The whited bits might be their actual pupils and their eye structure is secretly vertebrate-like.
>>1556396 I can haz a science!
You know, I should show you the genetic inheritance mechanism I worked out for the Cake Twins: http://charlesdeleroy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4mgvxs
Of course, I'd also have to modify it for the deleterious trans-species hybridization effects in this scenario.
*eerie thought* Discord could offer to correct the genetic problems in exchange for his freedom... oooo... somepony might actually take him up on the offer!
Of course if sea ponies turn out to be real, maybe their males are the ones who get pregnant like in real sea horses.
Actually, according to my headcannon, they can. As part of their Cute Ceaneras, this solves the problem of naming your foal, if their cutie mark doesn't mesh well with their given name.
Essentially, foals are named along family lines or whatever weird name their parents want to give them, then when their cutie mark appears, if they feel that their name no longer personifies them, they can change it as part of the ceremony.


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I have just returned for the annual NFL Business Seminar, at which I attended the public relations sessions with my counterparts from the other 31 teams, and a week earlier I was able to attend the NFL's annual meeting of owners, coaches, and high level football personnel people.
You take a lot of notes at meeting like that, some involving new thoughts and projects, others that just remind oneself of perhaps a better way to do something. When you stop taking notes, you slip up. You have to try to stay sharp.
I saw a sign in a weight room once that said, "strength is not permanent. You have to keep working on it." The same is true of being effective at whatever you are doing.
Now that I am back in the office, there are a varied number of tasks, projects and issues to be started, continued, or finished, and it is like that for everyone in the NFL right now.
We get the chance to share ideas, borrowing and stealing the best ones from our friends and associates, and now is the time when all these thoughts are being translated into action elements by the various departments, football and administrative.
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Doing all the organizational work during the week is what gives you the chance to win on Sunday, and in some cases can make it the simplest day of the week–after all, if the student is prepared, he should not be afraid to take the test.
Our player personnal people–like those of all the other theams–are hard at it right now getting ready for the draft at the end of the month. And that is a great example of just grinding it out.
They have all the reports, as well as all the video you can imagine, but eventually a complete analysis has to be made that ranks all these players in an order–and different teams have differnt ideas of how they choose to do that–but regardless, it involves hours, days, weeks, and untimately, months of organized work that all comes together in the last few weeks.
It takes meeting after meeting, comment after comment by the scouts who have seen each player, along the input from coaches, all making a final deretmination as to how someone fits into an organization.
The rest of our departments are not doing anything as exciting as the draft, but marketing is estalishing its sponsors and promotional initiatives, the ticket office is getting all the tickets renewed and making plans to sell those which remain available, and PR is planning and organizing media policy and access for every remaining day of the year that involves the coming together of team functions and the press–and the press will assuredly be at any team activity that they are allowed to attend, most notably practices and interview sessions.
There are specific NFL rules as to the access which we must allow, but each team still has to determine how best to tailor that to its own needs, eventually matching press requirements and mandates with the most important team goal of making sure that all distractions are minimized as the players and coaches go about their work.
And all of this is a matter of grinding, just taking one task at a time and doing it, like a big puzzle that you put together one tiny piece at a time.
Sometimes when people ask me how we won back-to-back Super Bowls–and of course superb talent is always a preeminent factor in that type of success–but I have answered that by saying we did it 40 seconds at a time.
That is, just like a team emphasizing maximum effort, focus, and performance on each play, one at a time, so too do those of us behind the scenes just keep laying bricks, one at a time, but not drifting from the task at hand.
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