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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Predicting Concurrency Failures in the Generalized Execution Traces of x86 Executables
Authors : Chao Wang, Malay Ganai
Published in: Runtime Verification
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this tutorial, we first provide a brief overview of the latest development in SMT based symbolic predictive analysis techniques and their applications to runtime verification. We then present a unified runtime analysis platform for detecting concurrency related program failures in the x86 executables of shared-memory multithreaded applications. Our platform supports efficient monitoring and easy customization of a wide range of
execution trace generalization
techniques. Many of these techniques have been successfully incorporated into our in-house verification tools, including BEST (Binary instrumentation based Error-directed Symbolic Testing), which can detect concurrency related errors such as deadlocks and race conditions, generate failure-triggering thread schedules, and provide the visual mapping between runtime events and their program code to help debugging.