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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
RELAY: static race detection on millions of lines of code
Data races occur when multiple threads are about to access the same piece of memory, and at least one of those accesses is a write. Such races can lead to hard-to-reproduce bugs t...
Jan Wen Voung, Ranjit Jhala, Sorin Lerner
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
SafeMem: Exploiting ECC-Memory for Detecting Memory Leaks and Memory Corruption During Production Runs
Memory leaks and memory corruption are two major forms of software bugs that severely threaten system availability and security. According to the US-CERT Vulnerability Notes Datab...
Feng Qin, Shan Lu, Yuanyuan Zhou
ASPLOS
2004
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
Low-overhead memory leak detection using adaptive statistical profiling
Sampling has been successfully used to identify performance optimization opportunities. We would like to apply similar techniques to check program correctness. Unfortunately, samp...
Matthias Hauswirth, Trishul M. Chilimbi
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
How power users help and hinder open bug reporting
Many power users that contribute to open source projects have no intention of becoming regular contributors; they just want a bug fixed or a feature implemented. How often do thes...
Andrew J. Ko, Parmit K. Chilana
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Which warnings should I fix first?
Automatic bug-finding tools have a high false positive rate: most warnings do not indicate real bugs. Usually bug-finding tools assign important warnings high priority. However, t...
Sunghun Kim, Michael D. Ernst