[Note: This is an old post and while many of the reasons remain true some of the data is old. A new post from 2017 is not available! Top Reasons to Study Computer Science at UOIT] This Saturday, March. 3, 2012 from 10:00am-2:00pm UOIT will be hosting its annual Winter Open House for prospective studentsContinue reading “Top 4 Reasons to Study Computer Science at UOIT”
Author Archives: bradbury
Humans and Concurrency
“…humans are quickly overwhelmed by concurrency and find it much more difficult to reason about concurrent than sequential code. Even careful people miss possible interleavings…” – Herb Sutter & James Larus, Microsoft. Software and the concurrency revolution. Queue, 3(7):54–62, 2005.
Software Testing Tools for Concurrency
As the use of concurrency in software increases there are more software testing tools being developed in both industry an academia. Below is a fairly comprehensive list of tools (mainly for Java): ConTest – IBM concurrent testing tool that inserts random delays into Java bytecode ConAn – a thread testing tool for Java CHESS – a Microsoft toolContinue reading “Software Testing Tools for Concurrency”
Welcome!
This blog is a place where I will… discuss ongoing research projects in the Software Quality Research Group Lab discuss interesting state-of-the-art work being done in the areas of software testing, software quality assurance, concurrent software systems, distributed software systems. comment on the current state of Software Engineering — both research and practice. mention anything elseContinue reading “Welcome!”