While deterministic replay of parallel programs is a powerful technique, current proposals have shortcomings. Specifically, software-based replay systems have high overheads on mu...
Pablo Montesinos, Matthew Hicks, Samuel T. King, J...
Inherent within complex instruction set architectures such as x86 are inefficiencies that do not exist in a simpler ISAs. Modern x86 implementations decode instructions into one o...
Brian Slechta, David Crowe, Brian Fahs, Michael Fe...
This paper describes the concepts of TEA, a flexible tool that supports user tests by automating repetitive tasks and collecting data of user inputs and actions. TEA was specifica...
Mismanagement of the persistent state of a system--all the executable files, configuration settings and other data that govern how a system functions--causes reliability problems,...
Chad Verbowski, Emre Kiciman, Arunvijay Kumar, Bra...
Testing and debugging database system applications is often challenging and time consuming. A database tester (or DB tester for short) has to detect a problem, determine why it ha...