WET: Publications

WET-related Publications

Whole Execution Traces

"Whole Execution Traces and Their Use in Debugging".
Xiangyu Zhang, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta.
The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, Second Edition, Chapter 4, CRC Press, pages 4-1--4-17, December 2007.

"ONTRAC: A System for Efficient ONline TRACing for Debugging".
Vijay Nagarajan, Dennis Jeffrey, Rajiv Gupta, and Neelam Gupta.
International Conference on Software Maintenance, pages 445-454, Paris, September 2007.

"Whole Execution Traces and their Applications".
Xiangyu Zhang and Rajiv Gupta.
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, Vol. 2, No. 3, pages 301-334, September 2005.

"Whole Execution Traces".
Xiangyu Zhang and Rajiv Gupta.
IEEE/ACM 37th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, pages 105-116, Portland, Oregon, December 2004.

Execution Reduction and Fast-Forwarding

"Enabling Tracing of Long-Running Multithreaded Programs via Dynamic Execution Reduction".
Sriraman Tallam, Chen Tian, Xiangyu Zhang, and Rajiv Gupta.
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, pages 207-218, London, July 2007.

"Dynamic Slicing Long Running Programs through Execution Fast Forwarding".
Xiangyu Zhang, Sriraman Tallam, and Rajiv Gupta.
14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, pages 81-91, Portland, Oregon, November 2006.

Dynamic Slicing

"Dynamic Slicing of Multithreaded Programs for Race Detection".
Sriraman Tallam, Chen Tian, and Rajiv Gupta
International Conference on Software Maintenance, Beijing, China, September 2008.

"Locating Faulty Code By Multiple Points Slicing".
Xiangyu Zhang, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta.
Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 37, Issue 9, pages 935-961, July 2007.

"Towards Locating Execution Omission Errors".
Xiangyu Zhang, Sriraman Tallam, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 415-424, San Diego, June 2007.

"A Study of Effectiveness of Dynamic Slicing in Locating Real Faults".
Xiangyu Zhang, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta.
Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, pages 143-160, April 2007.

"Pruning Dynamic Slices With Confidence".
Xiangyu Zhang, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 169-180, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.

"Locating Faulty Code Using Failure-Inducing Chops".
Neelam Gupta, Haifeng He, Xiangyu Zhang, and Rajiv Gupta.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pages 263-272, Long Beach, California, November 2005.

"Experimental Evaluation of Using Dynamic Slices for Fault Location".
Xiangyu Zhang, Haifeng He, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta.
SIGSOFT-SIGPLAN Sixth International Symposium on Automated and Analysis-Driven Debugging, pages 33-42, Monterey, California, September 2005.

"Cost and Precision Tradeoffs of Dynamic Data Slicing Algorithms".
Xiangyu Zhang, Rajiv Gupta, and Youtao Zhang.
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 27, No. 4, pages 631-661, July 2005.

"Cost Effective Dynamic Program Slicing".
Xiangyu Zhang and Rajiv Gupta.
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pages 94-106, Washington D.C., June 2004.

"Precise Dynamic Slicing Algorithms".
Xiangyu Zhang, Rajiv Gupta, and Youtao Zhang.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 319-329, Portland, Oregon, May 2003.