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CONCURRENCY
2004
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Finding stale-value errors in concurrent programs
Concurrent programs can suffer from many types of errors, not just the wellstudied problems of deadlocks and simple race conditions on variables. This paper addresses a kind of ra...
Michael Burrows, K. Rustan M. Leino
OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
EXPLODE: A Lightweight, General System for Finding Serious Storage System Errors
Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy...
Junfeng Yang, Can Sar, Dawson R. Engler
ICST
2011
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
EFindBugs: Effective Error Ranking for FindBugs
—Static analysis tools have been widely used to detect potential defects without executing programs. It helps programmers raise the awareness about subtle correctness issues in t...
Haihao Shen, Jianhong Fang, Jianjun Zhao
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Finding and preventing run-time error handling mistakes
It is difficult to write programs that behave correctly in the presence of run-time errors. Existing programming language features often provide poor support for executing clean-u...
Westley Weimer, George C. Necula
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 7 days ago
Finding errors in multithreaded GUI applications
To keep a Graphical User Interface (GUI) responsive and active, a GUI application often has a main UI thread (or event dispatching thread) and spawns separate threads to handle le...
Sai Zhang, Hao Lü, Michael D. Ernst