Testing of concurrent software

Author

Tai, K.-C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

20-22 Sep 1989

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Although a lot of research has been done in software testing, how to test concurrent programs effectively has not received much attention. Two early papers on testing concurrent programs were written by P. Brinch Hansen (see Software-Practice and Experience, vol.8, p.145-50 and p.721-9 (1989)) K.C. Tai´s paper (1985) addressed several issues on testing concurrent programs and started the work on deterministic execution testing and debugging of concurrent programs. These and other research results on testing concurrent programs are briefly examined. The following approaches to testing concurrent programs are discussed: single execution testing, multiple execution testing, and deterministic execution testing. Problems in deterministic execution testing and debugging of concurrent programs are examined

Keywords

multiprocessing programs; program testing; concurrent software testing; debugging; deterministic execution testing; multiple execution testing; single execution testing; Computer errors; Computer science; Debugging; Error correction; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1989. COMPSAC 89., Proceedings of the 13th Annual International

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1964-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1989.65057

Filename

65057