Forcing Rare Bugs to Appear - an Interview with Tingting Yu

One use of Simics that has always been fascinating is to use the power you have over the target to somehow force error conditions in software. The hardware state control inherent in a tool like Simics should be useful to knock a system off of the expected common path and into code less tested, and to reveal bugs that normally only appear in particular rare circumstances.  Recently, there was a paper published that discussed exactly such an application of Simics.  In this blog post, I will be interviewing Tingting Yu from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) about her paper.

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