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ICST
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Evaluation of Automated Black Box Testing Techniques for Crashing GUIs
This paper reports an empirical evaluation of four blackbox testing techniques for crashing programs through their GUI interface: SH, AF, DH, and BxT. The techniques vary in their...
Cristiano Bertolini, Glaucia Peres, Marcelo d'Amor...
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Finding latent performance bugs in systems implementations
Robust distributed systems commonly employ high-level recovery mechanisms enabling the system to recover from a wide variety of problematic environmental conditions such as node f...
Charles Edwin Killian, Karthik Nagaraj, Salman Per...
MOBIHOC
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Dynamic packet fragmentation for wireless channels with failures
It was shown recently [7?9], under quite general conditions, that retransmission-based protocols may result in power-law delays and possibly zero throughput even if the distributi...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Jian Tan
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
ConMem: detecting severe concurrency bugs through an effect-oriented approach
Multicore technology is making concurrent programs increasingly pervasive. Unfortunately, it is difficult to deliver reliable concurrent programs, because of the huge and non-det...
Wei Zhang, Chong Sun, Shan Lu