Finding concurrency bugs using graph based anomaly detection in big code
Concurrency bugs are very difficult and subtle to discover, reproduce, and fix. Many techniques have been devised by the academic as well as the industry communities to find these bugs. However, most of the effective techniques tend to focus on a subset of the various concurrency bugs types. We propose a new generic concurrency bug detection technique that leverages "Big Code" millions of lines of code freely available on code repositories. Our approach tries to learn the properties of what constitutes a good and a bad synchronization pattern from hundreds of concurrent software using graph based anomaly detection.
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