NDLI: IMUnit: improved multithreaded unit testing

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IMUnit: improved multithreaded unit testing

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Marinov, Darko Gligoric, Milos Jin, Dongyun Jagannath, Vilas Rosu, Grigore
Abstract	This position paper argues for an approach to bring several techniques successful for (regression) testing of sequential code over to multithreaded code. Multithreaded code is getting increasingly important but remains extremely hard to develop and test. Most recent research on testing multithreaded code focuses solely on finding bugs in one given version of code. While there are many promising results, the tools are fairly slow (as they, conceptually, explore a large number of schedules) and do not exploit the fact that code evolves over several versions during development and maintenance. Our proposal is to allow explicit specification of relevant schedules (either manually written or automatically generated) for multithreaded tests, which can substantially speed up testing, especially for evolving code. To enable the use of schedules, we propose to design a novel language for specifying schedules in multithreaded tests, and to develop tools for automatic generation of multithreaded tests and for improved regression testing with multithreaded tests.
Starting Page	48
Ending Page	49
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605589640
DOI	10.1145/1808954.1808966
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2010-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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