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HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Beyond Bug-Finding: Sound Program Analysis for Linux
It is time for us to focus on sound analyses for our critical systems software--that is, we must focus on analyses that ensure the absence of defects of particular known types, ra...
Zachary R. Anderson, Eric A. Brewer, Jeremy Condit...
CCS
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
EXE: automatically generating inputs of death
This paper presents EXE, an effective bug-finding tool that automatically generates inputs that crash real code. Instead of running code on manually or randomly constructed input,...
Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, ...
PLDI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
LOCKSMITH: context-sensitive correlation analysis for race detection
One common technique for preventing data races in multi-threaded programs is to ensure that all accesses to shared locations are consistently protected by a lock. We present a too...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jeffrey S. Foster, Michael W....
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
TACAS
2009
Springer
212views Algorithms» more  TACAS 2009»
14 years 2 days ago
Semantic Reduction of Thread Interleavings in Concurrent Programs
Abstract. We propose a static analysis framework for concurrent programs based on reduction of thread interleavings using sound invariants on the top of partial order techniques. S...
Vineet Kahlon, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Aarti Gupt...