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Concurrency bugs are hard to find due to the nondeterministic behavior of concurrent programs. In this paper, we present an algorithm for isolating erroneous event patterns in concurrent program executions. Failed executions are characterized as a sequence of switch points, which capture the interleaving of read and write events on shared variables. The algorithm inputs the sequence of a failed execution, and outputs erroneous event patterns. We implemented our algorithm and conducted an experimental evaluation on several Java benchmark programs. The results of our evaluation show that our approach can effectively and efficiently identify erroneous event patterns in failed executions.
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Xu, J., Lei, Y., Carver, R., Kung, D. (2013). A Dynamic Approach to Isolating Erroneous Event Patterns in Concurrent Program Executions. In: Lourenço, J.M., Farchi, E. (eds) Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools. MUSEPAT 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39955-8_9
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