Symbolic pruning of concurrent program executions

ESEC-FSE'09 - Proceedings of the Joint 12th European Software Engineering Conference and 17th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-32

  Wang, Chao ^a   Chaudhuri, Swarat ^b   Gupta, Aarti ^a   Yang, Yu ^c  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Partial order reduction; Pruning; SAT

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT PROGRAM; CONCURRENT PROGRAM EXECUTION; CONTROL FLOWS; EXECUTION TRACE; INTERLEAVINGS; PARTIAL ORDER REDUCTIONS; SATISFIABILITY SOLVERS; SEARCH SPACES; SYMBOLIC METHODS; TRACE EQUIVALENCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; MODEL CHECKING; SET THEORY;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 77949421686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1595696.1595702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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