Effective static deadlock detection

We present an effective static deadlock detection algorithm for Java. Our algorithm uses a novel combination of static analyses each of which approximates a different necessary condition for a deadlock. We have implemented the algorithm and report upon our experience applying it to a suite of multi-...

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Published in:2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 386 - 396
Main Authors: Naik, Mayur, Park, Chang-Seo, Sen, Koushik, Gay, David
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 16.05.2009
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Algorithm design and analysis
Concurrent computing
Data analysis
Detection algorithms
Java
Multicore processing
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Software defect analysis > Software testing and debugging
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language features > Concurrent programming structures
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > General programming languages > Language types
Sun
System recovery
Yarn
ISBN:9781424434534, 142443453X
ISSN:0270-5257
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Summary:We present an effective static deadlock detection algorithm for Java. Our algorithm uses a novel combination of static analyses each of which approximates a different necessary condition for a deadlock. We have implemented the algorithm and report upon our experience applying it to a suite of multi-threaded Java programs. While neither sound nor complete, our approach is effective in practice, finding all known deadlocks as well as discovering previously unknown ones in our benchmarks with few false alarms.
ISBN:9781424434534
142443453X
ISSN:0270-5257
DOI:10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070538