The Quest for Precision: A Layered Approach for Data Race Detection in Static Analysis.

Mund, Jakob and Huuck, R. and Fehnker, Ansgar and Artho, Cyrylle (2013) The Quest for Precision: A Layered Approach for Data Race Detection in Static Analysis. [Conference Proceedings]

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Abstract

Low level data-races in multi-threaded software are hard to detect, especially when requiring exhaustiveness, speed and precision. In this work, we combine ideas from run-time verification, static analysis and model checking to balance the above requirements. In particular, we adopt a well-known dynamic race detection algorithm based on calculating lock sets to static program analysis for achieving exhaustiveness. The resulting data race candidates are in a further step investigated by model checking with respect to a formal threading model to achieve precision. Moreover, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the combined approach by a case study on the open-source TFTP server OpenTFTP, which shows the trade-off between speed and precision in our two-stage analysis.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > School of Computing, Information and Mathematical Sciences
Depositing User:	Ansgar Fehnker
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2015 23:33
Last Modified:	22 Jun 2016 00:15
URI:	http://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/7693

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