Iterative context bounding for systematic testing of multithreaded programs

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 446-455

  Musuvathi, Madanlal ^a   Qadeer, Shaz ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Context bounding; Model checking; Multithreading; Partial order reduction; Shared memory programs; Software testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODEL CHECKING;

CONTEXT-BOUNDING; MULTITHREADING; PARTIAL-ORDER REDUCTION; SHARED-MEMORY PROGRAMS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 35448945590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1250734.1250785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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