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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2016.18

Testing of Concurrent Programs

Authors: Miguel Isabel

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 52, Technical Communications of the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016)

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Testing concurrent systems requires exploring all possible non-deterministic interleavings that the concurrent execution may have, as any of the interleavings may reveal erroneous behaviour. This introduces a new problem: the well-known state space problem, which is often computationally intractable. In the present thesis, this issue will be addressed through: (1) the development of new Partial-Order Reduction Techniques and (2) the combination of static analysis and testing (property-based testing) in order to reduce the combinatorial explosion. As a preliminary result, we have performed an experimental evaluation on the SYCO tool, a CLP-based testing framework for actor-based concurrency, where these techniques have been implemented. Finally, our experiments prove the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed techniques.

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Miguel Isabel. Testing of Concurrent Programs. In Technical Communications of the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 52, pp. 18:1-18:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{isabel:OASIcs.ICLP.2016.18,
  author =	{Isabel, Miguel},
  title =	{{Testing of Concurrent Programs}},
  booktitle =	{Technical Communications of the 32nd International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2016)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:5},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-007-1},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{52},
  editor =	{Carro, Manuel and King, Andy and Saeedloei, Neda and De Vos, Marina},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2016.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-67470},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ICLP.2016.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Property-based Testing, Partial Order Reduction, Deadlock-Guided Testing, Deadlock Detection, Systematic Testing}
}

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