Atomizer: A dynamic atomicity checker for multithreaded programs

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 89-109

  Flanagan, Cormac ^a   Freund, Stephen N ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomicity; Concurrency; Dynamic analysis; Reduction

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ATOMICITY; LIPTON'S THEORY; NONINTERFERENCE PROPERTY; SEQUENTIAL SEMANTICS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 42149116840     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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