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ICECCS
2010
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Implementing and Evaluating a Model Checker for Transactional Memory Systems
Abstract—Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technique that addresses the difficulty of parallel programming. Since TM takes responsibility for all concurrency control, TM ...
Woongki Baek, Nathan Grasso Bronson, Christos Kozy...
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ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation
We present a technique that improves random test generation by incorporating feedback obtained from executing test inputs as they are created. Our technique builds inputs incremen...
Carlos Pacheco, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Michael D. Ern...
ISSTA
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Improving distributed memory applications testing by message perturbation
We present initial work on perturbation techniques that cause the manifestation of timing-related bugs in distributed memory Message Passing Interface (MPI)-based applications. Th...
Richard W. Vuduc, Martin Schulz, Daniel J. Quinlan...
VMCAI
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Finding Concurrency-Related Bugs Using Random Isolation
This paper describes the methods used in Empire, a tool to detect concurrency-related bugs, namely atomic-set serializability violations in Java programs. The correctness criterion...
Nicholas Kidd, Thomas W. Reps, Julian Dolby, Manda...
ERLANG
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Testing Erlang data types with quviq quickcheck
When creating software, data types are the basic bricks. Most of the time a programmer will use data types defined in library modules, therefore being tested by many users over ma...
Thomas Arts, Laura M. Castro, John Hughes