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Program synthesis was first proposed a few decades ago, but in the last decade it has gained increased momentum in the research community. The increasing complexity of software has dictated the urgent need for improved supporting tools that verify the soft ...

EPFL2019

Asynchronous Byzantine Machine Learning (the case of SGD)

Rachid Guerraoui, Mahsa Taziki, El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Rhicheek Patra, Georgios Damaskinos

Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures, software bugs, c ...

2018

Improving systems software security through program analysis and instrumentation

Volodymyr Kuznetsov

Security and reliability bugs are prevalent in systems software. Systems code is often written in low-level languages like C/C++, which offer many benefits but also delegate memory management and type safety to programmers. This invites bugs that cause cra ...

EPFL2016

A Scala Library for Testing Student Assignments on Concurrent Programming

Mikaël Mayer, Ravichandhran Kandhadai Madhavan

We present a lightweight library for testing concurrent Scala programs by systematically exploring multiple interleavings between user-specified operations on shared objects. Our library is targeted at beginners of concurrent programming in Scala, runs on ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Troubleshooting Blackbox SON Control Software with Minimal Causal Sequences

Sam David Whitlock

Software bugs are inevitable in software-defined networking control software, and troubleshooting is a tedious, time-consuming task. In this paper we discuss how to improve control software troubleshooting by presenting a technique for automatically identi ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Automated Debugging for Arbitrarily Long Executions

George Candea, Edouard Bugnion, Johannes Kinder, Cristian Zamfir, Baris Can Cengiz Kasikci

One of the most energy-draining and frustrating parts of software development is playing detective with elusive bugs. In this paper we argue that automated post-mortem debugging of failures is feasible for real, in-production systems with no runtime record ...

2013

Execution Synthesis: A Technique for Automating the Debugging of Software

Cristian Zamfir

Debugging real systems is hard, requires deep knowledge of the target code, and is time-consuming. Bug reports rarely provide sufficient information for debugging, thus forcing developers to turn into detectives searching for an explanation of how the prog ...

EPFL2013

Querypoint Debugging (Semi-Automated Inspection of Buggy Execution)

Salman Mirghasemi

Debugging is a hard and time-consuming programming task that appears in the most stages of software development and maintenance. Therefore, any improvement in the debugging practice can significantly reduce the time and costs of software production. In thi ...

EPFL2012

Debug Determinism: The Sweet Spot for Replay-Based Debugging

George Candea, Cristian Zamfir

Deterministic replay tools offer a compelling approach to debugging hard-to-reproduce bugs. Recent work on relaxed-deterministic replay techniques shows that replay debugging with low in-production overhead is possible. However, despite considerable progre ...

2011

Automating the Testing of OpenFlow Applications

Dejan Kostic, Marco Canini, Jennifer Rexford

Software-defined networking, and the emergence of OpenFlow-capable switches, enables a wide range of new network functionality. However, enhanced programmability inevitably leads to more software faults (or bugs). We believe that tools for testing OpenFlow ...

2011

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