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FASE
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Lightweight and Portable Approach to Making Concurrent Failures Reproducible
Multithreaded concurrent programs often exhibit bugs due to unintended interferences among the concurrent threads. Such bugs are often hard to reproduce because they typically hap...
Qingzhou Luo, Sai Zhang, Jianjun Zhao, Min Hu
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Randomized active atomicity violation detection in concurrent programs
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
Chang-Seo Park, Koushik Sen
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Calysto: scalable and precise extended static checking
Automatically detecting bugs in programs has been a long-held goal in software engineering. Many techniques exist, trading-off varying levels of automation, thoroughness of covera...
Domagoj Babic, Alan J. Hu
PLDI
2010
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
Adversarial memory for detecting destructive races
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions, a problem exacerbated by the widespread adoption of multi-core processors with complex memory models and cache coh...
Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Undangle: early detection of dangling pointers in use-after-free and double-free vulnerabilities
Use-after-free vulnerabilities are rapidly growing in popularity, especially for exploiting web browsers. Use-afterfree (and double-free) vulnerabilities are caused by a program o...
Juan Caballero, Gustavo Grieco, Mark Marron, Anton...