Analyzing Partition Testing Strategies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM/IEEE international symposium on Microarchitecture
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1999 conference on Programming language design and implementation
An empirical study of operating systems errors
SOSP '01 Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Dependability of COTS Microkernel-Based Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on fault-tolerant embedded systems
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition
Programming the Microsoft Windows Driver Model, Second Edition
ISSRE '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Using operational distributions to judge testing progress
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Characterization of the Impact of Faulty Drivers on the Robustness of the Linux Kernel
DSN '04 Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Error Propagation Profiling of Operating Systems
DSN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
SPiKE: engineering malware analysis tools using unobtrusive binary-instrumentation
ACSC '06 Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 48
Robustness Testing of the Windows DDK
DSN '07 Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Windows XP kernel crash analysis
LISA '06 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Large Installation System Administration
Detours: binary interception of Win32 functions
WINSYM'99 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Windows NT Symposium - Volume 3
On the Impact of Injection Triggers for OS Robustness Evaluation
ISSRE '07 Proceedings of the The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability
On enhancing the robustness of commercial operating systems
ISAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Service Availability
Improving robustness testing of COTS OS extensions
ISAS'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Service Availability
Profiling the operational behavior of OS device drivers
Empirical Software Engineering
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Operating Systems (OSs) mediate across the hardware and software applications, leading to overall system service provision, but often sacrifice service robustness while favoring increasing feature richness and peripheral support. The OS interface to peripherals is implemented by components termed as Device Drivers (DDs). Unfortunately, despite extensive testing, DDs continue to constitute the prominent cause of system service failures. To find DD's weakness areas, this paper proposes a novel technique for profiling kernel mode DDs execution paths. Such profiles highlight the frequently used parts of a driver for a workload, helping identify redundant tests. The communication interfaces between the OS and DDs are simultaneously monitored, revealing the kernel functions invoked at runtime and the followed code paths. To highlight execution hotspots, a cluster analysis scheme using string similarity metrics is proposed to distribute the code paths into equivalence classes, reflecting the occurrence weights of both kernel functions and code paths.