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In order to improve quality of an implementation of a distributed and multithreaded system, software engineers inspect code and run tests. However, the concurrent nature of such systems makes these tasks challenging. For testing, this problem is addressed by stress testing, which repeatedly executes a test hoping that eventually all possible outcomes of the test will be encountered.
The work in this paper is based on research supported in part by the DoE, under award number DE-FC02-06ER25767 (PDSI), by the NSF under grant CCF-1019104, and by the MSR-CMU Center for Computational Thinking. We also thank the members and companies of the PDL Consortium (including APC, DataDomain, EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, LSI, Microsoft, NEC, NetApp, Oracle, Seagate, Sun, Symantec, and VMware) for their interest, insights, feedback, and support.
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Šimša, J., Bryant, R., Gibson, G. (2011). dBug: Systematic Testing of Unmodified Distributed and Multi-threaded Systems. In: Groce, A., Musuvathi, M. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6823. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22306-8_14
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