Kraemer, Eileen ;
Laura Dillon
Groundwork for the Development of Testing Plans for Concurrent Software
Abstract
While multi-threading has become commonplace in many application domains (e.g., embedded systems, digital signal processing (DSP), networks, IP services, and graphics), multi-threaded code often requires complex co-ordination of threads. As a result, multi-threaded implementations are prone to subtle bugs that are difficult and time-consuming to locate. Moreover, current testing techniques that address multi-threading are generally costly while their effectiveness is unknown. The development of cost-effective testing plans requires an in-depth study of the nature, frequency, and cost of concurrency errors in the context of real-world applications. The full paper will lay the groundwork for such a study, with the purpose of informing the creation of a parametric cost model for testing multi-threaded software. The current version of the paper provides motivation for the study, an outline of the full paper, and a bibliography of related papers.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{kraemer_et_al:DSP:2010:2621,
author = {Eileen Kraemer and Laura Dillon},
title = {Groundwork for the Development of Testing Plans for Concurrent Software},
booktitle = {Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors},
year = {2010},
editor = {Mark Harman and Henry Muccini and Wolfram Schulte and Tao Xie},
number = {10111},
series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
ISSN = {1862-4405},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2621},
annote = {Keywords: Concurrency, Testing}
}
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Concurrency, Testing |
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10111 - Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors
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2010 |
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28.06.2010 |
