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PLDI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Breadcrumbs: Efficient Context Sensitivity for Dynamic Bug Detection Analyses
Calling context--the set of active methods on the stack--is critical for understanding the dynamic behavior of large programs. Dynamic program analysis tools, however, are almost ...
Michael D. Bond, Graham Z. Baker, Samuel Z. Guyer
SIGSOFT
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
DebugAdvisor: a recommender system for debugging
In large software development projects, when a programmer is assigned a bug to fix, she typically spends a lot of time searching (in an ad-hoc manner) for instances from the past ...
B. Ashok, Joseph M. Joy, Hongkang Liang, Sriram K....
MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 5 months ago
Tolerating Concurrency Bugs Using Transactions as Lifeguards
Abstract--Parallel programming is hard, because it is impractical to test all possible thread interleavings. One promising approach to improve a multi-threaded program's relia...
Jie Yu, Satish Narayanasamy
MICRO
2006
IEEE
74views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Phoenix: Detecting and Recovering from Permanent Processor Design Bugs with Programmable Hardware
Although processor design verification consumes ever-increasing resources, many design defects still slip into production silicon. In a few cases, such bugs have caused expensive...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Abhishek Tiwari, Josep Torrella...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Striking a new balance between program instrumentation and debugging time
Although they are helpful in many cases, state-of-the-art bug reporting systems may impose excessive overhead on users, leak private information, or provide little help to the dev...
Olivier Crameri, Ricardo Bianchini, Willy Zwaenepo...