PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
Monitoring or profiling programs provides us with an understanding for its further improvement and analysis. Typically, for monitoring or profiling, the program is instrumented ...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Many analysis techniques have been proposed to determine when a potentially null value may be dereferenced. But we have observed in practice that not every potential null derefere...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Packrat parsing is a powerful parsing algorithm presented by Ford in 2002. Packrat parsers can handle complicated grammars and recursive structures in lexical elements more easily...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
ROADRUNNER is a dynamic analysis framework designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and experimentation with dynamic analyses for concurrent Java programs. It provides a clean API...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Multicore is now the dominant processor trend, and the number of cores is rapidly increasing. The paradigm shift to multicore forces the redesign of the software stack, which incl...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Inaccurate documentation can mislead programmers and cause software to fail in unexpected ways. We examine mismatches between documented and actual error codes returned by 42 Linu...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Large clusters of mutual dependence can cause problems for comprehension, testing and maintenance. This paper introduces the concept of coherent dependence clusters, techniques fo...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
Recently there has been significant interest in employing probabilistic techniques for fault localization. Using dynamic dependence information for multiple passing runs, learnin...
PASTE
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
We present a novel technique that identifies the source compiler of program binaries, an important element of program provenance. Program provenance answers fundamental questions...