More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...
XML delivers key advantages in interoperability due to its flexibility, expressiveness, and platform-neutrality. As XML has become a performance-critical aspect of the next genera...
Morris Matsa, Eric Perkins, Abraham Heifets, Marga...
Even though most data races are harmless, the harmful ones are at the heart of some of the worst concurrency bugs. Alas, spotting just the harmful data races in programs is like ļ...
The internal libraries of Linux are evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. These evolutions, however, entail a massive problem of collateral evolut...
Distributed systems are hard to build, proļ¬le, debug, and test. Monitoring a distributed system ā to detect and analyze bugs, test for regressions, identify fault-tolerance pr...