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KBSE
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 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
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Communication, collaboration, and bugs: the social nature of issue tracking in small, collocated teams
Issue tracking systems help organizations manage issue reporting, assignment, tracking, resolution, and archiving. Traditionally, it is the Software Engineering community that res...
Dane Bertram, Amy Voida, Saul Greenberg, Robert Wa...
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
Finding Symbolic Bug Patterns in Sensor Networks
Abstract. This paper presents a failure diagnosis algorithm for summarizing and generalizing patterns that lead to instances of anomalous behavior in sensor networks. Often multipl...
Mohammad Maifi Hasan Khan, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ji...
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Analyzing multicore dumps to facilitate concurrency bug reproduction
Debugging concurrent programs is difficult. This is primarily because the inherent non-determinism that arises because of scheduler interleavings makes it hard to easily reproduc...
Dasarath Weeratunge, Xiangyu Zhang, Suresh Jaganna...
TAPSOFT
1995
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Anatomy of the Pentium Bug
The Pentium computer chip’s division algorithm relies on a table from which five entries were inadvertently omitted, with the result that 1738 single precision dividenddivisor ...
Vaughan R. Pratt