Concurrency is pervasive in large systems. Unexpected interference among threads often results in "Heisenbugs" that are extremely difficult to reproduce and eliminate. W...
Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy...
Software defects, commonly known as bugs, present a serious challenge for system reliability and dependability. Once a program failure is observed, the debugging activities to loc...
Today's software systems communicate over the Internet using standard protocols that have been heavily scrutinized, providing some assurance of resistance to malicious attack...
Octavian Udrea, Cristian Lumezanu, Jeffrey S. Fost...
Abstract—Reliably predicting software defects is one of software engineering’s holy grails. Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of bug prediction approaches var...