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Table 7 Sorted concurrency bugs severity

From: Concurrency bugs in open source software: a case study

Rank

Severity

Most frequent concurrency bug types

1

Blocker

2

Critical

Deadlock (17%)

  

Suspension (21%)

3

Major

Atomicity violation (5%)

  

Starvation (6%)

  

Livelock (1%)

4

Minor

Data race (59%)

  

Order violation (18%)

  

Atomicity violation (5%)

5

Trival