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POPL
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining specifications
Program verification is a promising approach to improving program quality, because it can search all possible program executions for specific errors. However, the need to formally...
Glenn Ammons, James R. Larus, Rastislav Bodí...
CODES
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Performance debugging of Esterel specifications
Synchronous languages like Esterel have been widely adopted for designing reactive systems in safety-critical domains such as avionics. Specifications written in Esterel are based...
Lei Ju, Bach Khoa Huynh, Abhik Roychoudhury, Samar...
ICSE
2010
IEEE-ACM
13 years 10 months ago
DETERMIN: inferring likely deterministic specifications of multithreaded programs
The trend towards multicore processors and graphic processing units is increasing the need for software that can take advantage of parallelism. Writing correct parallel programs u...
Jacob Burnim, Koushik Sen
KDD
2007
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Efficient mining of iterative patterns for software specification discovery
Studies have shown that program comprehension takes up to 45% of software development costs. Such high costs are caused by the lack-of documented specification and further aggrava...
Chao Liu 0001, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo
OOPSLA
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Composable specifications for structured shared-memory communication
In this paper we propose a communication-centric approach to specifying and checking how multithreaded programs use shared memory to perform inter-thread communication. Our approa...
Benjamin P. Wood, Adrian Sampson, Luis Ceze, Dan G...