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PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tracking pointers with path and context sensitivity for bug detection in C programs
This paper proposes a pointer alias analysis for automatic error detection. State-of-the-art pointer alias analyses are either too slow or too imprecise for finding errors in real...
V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S. Lam
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
SherLog: error diagnosis by connecting clues from run-time logs
Computer systems often fail due to many factors such as software bugs or administrator errors. Diagnosing such production run failures is an important but challenging task since i...
Ding Yuan, Haohui Mai, Weiwei Xiong, Lin Tan, Yuan...
ISCA
2009
IEEE
137views Hardware» more  ISCA 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
A case for an interleaving constrained shared-memory multi-processor
Shared-memory multi-threaded programming is inherently more difficult than single-threaded programming. The main source of complexity is that, the threads of an application can in...
Jie Yu, Satish Narayanasamy
IWPSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Talking tests: an empirical assessment of the role of fit acceptance tests in clarifying requirements
The starting point for software evolution is usually a change request, expressing the new or updated requirements on the delivered system. The requirements specified in a change ...
Filippo Ricca, Marco Torchiano, Mariano Ceccato, P...