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Testing of Execution of Concurrent Processes

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Authors propose an algorithm for analysis of business processes to detect potentially incorrect results of concurrent processes execution. Our novel approach is to conclude necessary database isolation level from business process description. If traditional languages with loops and arithmetic operations (two-way counters) are used for business process descriptions, the problem of detecting incorrect execution of concurrent processes cannot be algorithmically solved. This paper introduces a simplified business processes description language CPL-1, a transaction mechanism and an algorithm that supports detection of incorrect results during the concurrent execution of business processes. Business processes are often run concurrently in real world tasks like billing systems, ticket distribution, hotel reservations, etc. Currently there are some popular solutions preventing incorrect execution of concurrent business processes by using built-in transaction mechanisms and/or resource reservations in database management systems (DBMS). The proposed solution is an alternative, which can be used when resource locking or DBMS transaction mechanisms cannot be applied.

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  • Concurrent transactions
  • Symbolic execution
  • Transaction execution state

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the research project “Competence Centre of Information and Communication Technologies” of EU Structural funds, contract No. 1.2.1.1/18/A/003 signed between IT Competence Centre and Central Finance and Contracting Agency, Research No. 1.6 “Concurrence analysis in business process models”.

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    Janis Bicevskis & Girts Karnitis

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Bicevskis, J., Karnitis, G. (2020). Testing of Execution of Concurrent Processes. In: Robal, T., Haav, HM., Penjam, J., Matulevičius, R. (eds) Databases and Information Systems. DB&IS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1243. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57672-1_20

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