Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Bugs in kernel-level device drivers cause 85% of the system crashes in the Windows XP operating system [44]. One of the sources of these errors is the complexity of the Windows dr...
Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Byron Cook, Vladimir ...
An important element of understanding a software code base is to identify the repetitive patterns of code it contains and how these evolve over time. Some patterns are useful to t...
We present a scalable temporal order analysis technique that supports debugging of large scale applications by classifying MPI tasks based on their logical program execution order...
Dong H. Ahn, Bronis R. de Supinski, Ignacio Laguna...