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ISSTA
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Producing scheduling that causes concurrent programs to fail
A noise maker is a tool that seeds a concurrent program with conditional synchronization primitives (such as yield()) for the purpose of increasing the likelihood that a bug manif...
Yosi Ben-Asher, Yaniv Eytani, Eitan Farchi, Shmuel...
COMPSAC
1999
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Generic Approach of Static Analysis for Detecting Runtime Errors in Java Programs
This paper presents a generic approach to statically analyze Java programs in order to detect potential errors (bugs). We discuss a framework that supports our approach and carrie...
Xiaoping Jia, Sotiris Skevoulis
CACM
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Automatic program repair with evolutionary computation
Therearemanymethodsfordetectingandmitigatingsoftware errors but few generic methods for automatically repairing errors once they are discovered. This paper highlights recent work ...
Westley Weimer, Stephanie Forrest, Claire Le Goues...
PLDI
1996
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Target-Sensitive Construction of Diagnostic Programs for Procedure Calling Sequence Generators
Building compilers that generate correct code is difficult. In this paper we present a compiler testing technique that closes the gap between actual compiler implementations and c...
Mark W. Bailey, Jack W. Davidson
TAP
2009
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Could We Have Chosen a Better Loop Invariant or Method Contract?
The method contract and loop invariant rules (contract rules) are an important software verification technique for handling method invocations and loops. However, if a verificati...
Christoph Gladisch