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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs
Concurrency is pervasive in large systems. Unexpected interference among threads often results in "Heisenbugs" that are extremely difficult to reproduce and eliminate. W...
Gérard Basler, Iulian Neamtiu, Madanlal Mus...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
150views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Dereferee: exploring pointer mismanagement in student code
Dynamic memory management and the use of pointers are critical topics in teaching the C++ language. They are also some of the most difficult for students to grasp properly. The re...
Anthony Allevato, Manuel A. Pérez-Qui&ntild...
SIGOPS
2011
215views Hardware» more  SIGOPS 2011»
13 years 6 days ago
Log-based architectures: using multicore to help software behave correctly
While application performance and power-efficiency are both important, application correctness is even more important. In other words, if the application is misbehaving, it is li...
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, T...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
State space exploration using feedback constraint generation and Monte-Carlo sampling
The systematic exploration of the space of all the behaviours of a software system forms the basis of numerous approaches to verification. However, existing approaches face many c...
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Richard M. Chang, Guofei ...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Basset: a tool for systematic testing of actor programs
This paper presents Basset, a tool for systematic testing of JVM-based actor programs. The actor programming model offers a promising approach for developing reliable concurrent a...
Steven Lauterburg, Rajesh K. Karmani, Darko Marino...