Trace-Driven Verification of Multithreaded Programs

Yang, Zijiang; Sakallah, Karem A.

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“…They can be classified in several different ways, considering for example static or dynamic approaches and shared‐memory and/or message‐passing paradigms and also considering the language and/or standard used. The published papers are distributed over a number of discrete testing topics, such as failure injection , formal verification , static analysis , testing‐driven development , controlled execution , mutation testing , model checking , model‐based testing , structural testing , symbolic analysis , search‐based testing , interleaving coverage testing , probabilistic concurrency testing , reachability testing , and test case generation .…”

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Structural testing for message‐passing concurrent programs: an extended test model

Souza

Zaluska

2012

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYDeveloping high-quality, error-free message-passing concurrent programs is not trivial. Although a number of different primitives with associated semantics are available to assist such development, they often increase the complexity of the testing process. In this paper, we extend our previous test model for messagepassing programs and present new structural testing criteria, taking into account additional features used in this paradigm, such as collective communication, non-blocking sends, distinct semantics for non-blocking receives, and persistent operations. Our new model also recognizes that sender primitives cannot always be matched with every receive primitive. This improvement allows us to remove statically a significant number of infeasible synchronization edges that would otherwise have to be analyzed later by the tester. In this paper, the test model is presented using the Message-Passing Interface standard; however, our new model has been designed to be flexible, and it can be configured to support a range of different messagepassing environments or languages. We have carried out case studies showing the applicability of the new test model to represent message-passing programs and also to reveal errors, mainly those errors related to inter-process communication. In addition to increasing the number of features supported by the test model, we have also reduced the overall cost of testing significantly. Our case studies suggest that the number of synchronization edges can be reduced by up to 93%, mainly by eliminating infeasible edges between unmatchable communication primitives. The main contribution of the paper is to present a more flexible test model that provides improved coverage for message-passing programs and at the same time reduces the cost of testing significantly.

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Structural testing for message‐passing concurrent programs: an extended test model

Souza

Zaluska

2012

Concurrency and Computation

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“…The rest of the report summarizes the main contributions of our research. More details about our research can be found in our publications [13,37,38,39,45,46,47] and a forthcoming Ph.D. thesis [36].…”

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Program Analysis Techniques for Efficient Software Model Checking

Boyapati¹,

Sakallah²

2011

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The need to build next generation air force systems with highly complex functions, but at relatively low cost, will inevitably means a major investment in software. Without highly reliable software, any ambitious air force program cannot succeed. Indeed, software is the keystone (or perhaps the Achilles heel) of most large-scale automation projects; and the problem of making software reliable has become one of today's most important technological challenges.To address this problem and to improve software reliability, we designed novel program analysis techniques that significantly speed up software model checking, thereby enabling the checking of much larger programs and broader class of program properties than previously possible.In particular, we developed a software model checker for efficiently checking data oriented programs with respect to complex data dependent properties. We used our model checker for checking programs that use linked data structures such as lists, queues, trees, and maps. Verifying such programs has often been an obstacle to progress in the past and is a key underlying technical challenge in software verification. Because these programs have complex data dependent properties, the state space reduction techniques (such as predicate abstraction or partial order reduction) used by other model checkers are largely ineffective on such programs. Our model checker uses novel techniques to achieve orders of magnitude state space reduction.In addition, we also developed a novel trace driven approach to use counter example guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) to check for concurrency errors in multithreaded programs.

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“…Para o teste baseado na especificação, são propostas abordagens, como: verificação formal SAKALLAH, 2010;RAKAMARIC, 2010;WOOD et al, 2010;SUGETA et al, 2004;SOUZA et al, 1999) e teste baseado em modelos (AICHERNIG et al, 2009;LI et al, 2009;CORDEIRO, 2010).…”

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Um framework para avaliação sistemática de técnicas de teste no contexto de programação concorrente

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Trace-Driven Verification of Multithreaded Programs

Cited by 3 publications

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Structural testing for message‐passing concurrent programs: an extended test model

Structural testing for message‐passing concurrent programs: an extended test model

Program Analysis Techniques for Efficient Software Model Checking

Um framework para avaliação sistemática de técnicas de teste no contexto de programação concorrente

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