NDLI: Executable assertion development for the distributed parallel environment

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	McMillin, B.M. Ni, L.M.
Copyright Year	1988
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Missouri Univ., Rolla, MO, USA (McMillin, B.M.)
Abstract	The use of executable assertions is a powerful tool with which to perform program verification, provide software fault-tolerance, and provide hardware fault-tolerance via the application-oriented paradigm. The authors show that assertions commonly used in the sequential programming environment are inadequate for the distributed parallel environment. In particular, it is shown that even design-based assertions are myopic and provide inadequate error coverage. In their place, a triad of basic metrics is proposed for certain classes of problems that, when applied beginning with the specification phase of the life cycle, produce assertions that are better suited to the parallel environment. This method is applied to a well-known parallel computing problem in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method. Error coverage is modeled probabilistically so that the dominance of assertions may be quantified.<>
Starting Page	284
Ending Page	291
File Size	634407
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818608730
DOI	10.1109/CMPSAC.1988.17187
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1988-10-05
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Fault tolerance Hardware Testing Computer science Mathematics Laboratories Software performance Software tools Parallel processing Application software
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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