Finding and reproducing heisenbugs in concurrent programs

Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 267-280

  Musuvathi, Madanlal ^a   Qadeer, Shaz ^a   Nainar, Piramanayagam Arumuga ^b   Ball, Thomas ^a   Basler, Gerard ^c   Neamtiu, Iulian ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CONCURRENT PROGRAM; EXISTING SYSTEMS; INTERLEAVINGS; PROGRAM BEHAVIOR; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION; TEST FRAMEWORK; THREAD SCHEDULING;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 85076883647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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