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OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CP-Miner: A Tool for Finding Copy-paste and Related Bugs in Operating System Code
Copy-pasted code is very common in large software because programmers prefer reusing code via copy-paste in order to reduce programming effort. Recent studies show that copy-paste...
Zhenmin Li, Shan Lu, Suvda Myagmar, Yuanyuan Zhou
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 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...
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...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Listening to programmers - Taxonomies and characteristics of comments in operating system code
Innovations from multiple directions have been proposed to improve software reliability. Unfortunately, many of the innovations are not fully exploited by programmers. To bridge t...
Yoann Padioleau, Lin Tan, Yuanyuan Zhou
VSTTE
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Towards Scalable Modular Checking of User-Defined Properties
Abstract. Theorem-prover based modular checkers have the potential to perform scalable and precise checking of user-defined properties by combining pathsensitive intraprocedural re...
Thomas Ball, Brian Hackett, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Sh...