Randomized active atomicity violation detection in concurrent programs

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 135-145

  Park, Chang Seo ^a   Sen, Koushik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomicity violation detection; Concurrency; Dynamic analysis; Random testing

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BLOCKS; ATOMIC CODES; CONCURRENCY; CONCURRENT PROGRAM; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS TOOLS; HIGH PROBABILITY; JAVA PROGRAM; JAVA THREAD; MULTI-THREADED JAVA PROGRAMS; MULTI-THREADED PROGRAMS; MULTITHREADED PROGRAMMING; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; RANDOM TESTING; REAL-WORLD;

ATOMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRIME; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MULTIPROCESSING PROGRAMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 77950470798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1453101.1453121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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