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EUROSYS
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Kivati: Fast Detection and Prevention of Atomicity Violations
Bugs in concurrent programs are extremely difficult to find and fix during testing. In this paper, we propose Kivati, which can efficiently detect and prevent atomicity violat...
Lee Chew, David Lie
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
First-aid: surviving and preventing memory management bugs during production runs
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...
Qi Gao, Wenbin Zhang, Yan Tang, Feng Qin
SOSP
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
MUVI: automatically inferring multi-variable access correlations and detecting related semantic and concurrency bugs
Software defects significantly reduce system dependability. Among various types of software bugs, semantic and concurrency bugs are two of the most difficult to detect. This pape...
Shan Lu, Soyeon Park, Chongfeng Hu, Xiao Ma, Weiha...
SOSP
2009
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Debugging in the (very) large: ten years of implementation and experience
Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has collected billion...
Kirk Glerum, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Steve Greenberg...
FASE
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
A Lightweight and Portable Approach to Making Concurrent Failures Reproducible
Multithreaded concurrent programs often exhibit bugs due to unintended interferences among the concurrent threads. Such bugs are often hard to reproduce because they typically hap...
Qingzhou Luo, Sai Zhang, Jianjun Zhao, Min Hu