Data races are among the most reliable indicators of programming errors in concurrent software. For at least two decades, Lamport’s happens-before (HB) relation has served as th...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Jacob Evans, Caitlin Sadowski,...
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
We describe the Slice Processor micro-architecture that implements a generalized operation-based prefetching mechanism. Operation-based prefetchers predict the series of operation...
Andreas Moshovos, Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, Amir...
An important decision problem in many software projects is when to stop testing and release software for use. For many software products, time to market is critical and therefore ...
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil, William Marsh, Pete...
We introduce the concept of “residual investigation” for program analysis. A residual investigation is a dynamic check installed as a result of running a static analysis that ...
Kaituo Li, Christoph Reichenbach, Christoph Csalln...