Title

Race Condition Detection Analysis for Multithreaded Java Programs

Overview

Race conditions are common errors in multithreaded programs. Race conditions often result in unexpected program behaviour. This paper investigates a static analysis system for race condition detection.

Papers

Cormac Flanagan and Stephen N. Freud. Type Based Race Detection for Java. In Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Vancouver, June 2000. SIGPLAN Notices, 35(5): 219-232. May 2000. ACM.

Additional reading material

M. Ben-Ari. Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming. Prentice-Hall International, 1990.

Implementation details

Analyze the theory proposed by the paper. Research on all types of race conditions.