It is time for us to focus on sound analyses for our critical systems software--that is, we must focus on analyses that ensure the absence of defects of particular known types, ra...
Zachary R. Anderson, Eric A. Brewer, Jeremy Condit...
This paper presents EXE, an effective bug-finding tool that automatically generates inputs that crash real code. Instead of running code on manually or randomly constructed input,...
Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, ...
One common technique for preventing data races in multi-threaded programs is to ensure that all accesses to shared locations are consistently protected by a lock. We present a too...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jeffrey S. Foster, Michael W....
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Abstract. We propose a static analysis framework for concurrent programs based on reduction of thread interleavings using sound invariants on the top of partial order techniques. S...