Fixing concurrency bugs (or crugs) is critical in modern software systems. Static analyses to find crugs such as data races and atomicity violations scale poorly, while dynamic a...
Guoliang Jin, Aditya V. Thakur, Ben Liblit, Shan L...
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...
Debugging a database engine is an arduous task due to the complexity of the query workloads and systems. The first step in isolating a bug involves identifying a sequence of step...
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a program’s user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...
This paper introduces program chipping, a simple yet effective technique to isolate bugs. This technique automatically removes or chips away parts of a program so that the part t...