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SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Finding latent performance bugs in systems implementations
Robust distributed systems commonly employ high-level recovery mechanisms enabling the system to recover from a wide variety of problematic environmental conditions such as node f...
Charles Edwin Killian, Karthik Nagaraj, Salman Per...
KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
An automated approach for finding variable-constant pairing bugs
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...
Julia L. Lawall, David Lo
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Input generation via decomposition and re-stitching: finding bugs in Malware
Attackers often take advantage of vulnerabilities in benign software, and the authors of benign software must search their code for bugs in hopes of finding vulnerabilities before...
Juan Caballero, Pongsin Poosankam, Stephen McCaman...
SAC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Dual analysis for proving safety and finding bugs
Program bugs remain a major challenge for software developers and various tools have been proposed to help with their localization and elimination. Most present-day tools are base...
Corneliu Popeea, Wei-Ngan Chin
MICRO
2009
IEEE
132views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Finding concurrency bugs with context-aware communication graphs
Incorrect thread synchronization often leads to concurrency bugs that manifest nondeterministically and are difficult to detect and fix. Past work on detecting concurrency bugs ...
Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze