Finding race conditions in Erlang with QuickCheck and PULSE

Author:

Claessen Koen1,Palka Michal1,Smallbone Nicholas2,Hughes John3,Svensson Hans4,Arts Thomas4,Wiger Ulf5

Affiliation:

1. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

2. Chalmers University of Technonlogy, Gothenburg, Sweden

3. Quviq AB, Gothenburg, Sweden

4. Chalmers University of Technology and Quviq AB, Gothenburg, Sweden

5. Erlang Training and Consulting, London, Gt Britain

Abstract

We address the problem of testing and debugging concurrent, distributed Erlang applications. In concurrent programs, race conditions are a common class of bugs and are very hard to find in practice. Traditional unit testing is normally unable to help finding all race conditions, because their occurrence depends so much on timing. Therefore, race conditions are often found during system testing, where due to the vast amount of code under test, it is often hard to diagnose the error resulting from race conditions. We present three tools (QuickCheck, PULSE, and a visualizer) that in combination can be used to test and debug concurrent programs in unit testing with a much better possibility of detecting race conditions. We evaluate our method on an industrial concurrent case study and illustrate how we find and analyze the race conditions.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software

Cited by 5 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献 订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Quickstrom: property-based acceptance testing with LTL specifications;Proceedings of the 43rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation;2022-06-09

2. An Overview of Practical Impacts of Functional Programming;2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference Workshops (APSECW);2017-12

3. Checking Response-Time Properties of Web-Service Applications Under Stochastic User Profiles;Testing Software and Systems;2017

4. PrologCheck – Property-Based Testing in Prolog;Functional and Logic Programming;2014

5. Simplifying Contract-Violating Traces;Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science;2012-09-08

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3