Life, death, and the critical transition: Finding liveness bugs in systems code

4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 243-256

  Killian, Charles ^a   Anderson, James W ^a   Jhala, Ranjit ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONCURRENT AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LIVENESS PROPERTIES; OVERLAY TREE; RELIABLE TRANSPORT PROTOCOL; SAFETY VIOLATIONS; SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKERS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEMS CODE;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 85028155431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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