Publication detail

Advances in Noise-based Testing of Concurrent Programs

FIEDOR, J. DUDKA, V. KŘENA, B. LETKO, Z. UR, S. VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

Advances in Noise-based Testing of Concurrent Programs

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Testing of concurrent software written in programming languages like Java and C/C++ is ahighly challenging task owing to the many possible interactions among threads. Asimple, cheap, and effective approach that addresses this challenge is testing with noise injection, which influences the scheduling so that different interleavings of concurrent actions are witnessed. In this paper, multiple results achieved recently in the area of noise-injection-based testing by the authors are presented in a unified and extended way. In particular, various concurrency coverage metrics are presented first. Then, multiple heuristics for solving the noise placement problem (i.e. where and when to generate noise) as well as the noise seeding problem (i.e. how to generate the noise) are introduced and experimentally evaluated. In addition, several new heuristics are proposed and included into the evaluation too. Recommendations on how to set up noise-based testing for particular scenarios are then given. Finally, anovel use of the genetic algorithm for finding suitable combinations of the many parameters of tests and noise techniques is presented. 

Keywords

testing; dynamic analysis; noise injection; multi-threaded software; coverage metrics; genetic algorithm; meta-heuristic algorithms

Authors

FIEDOR, J.; DUDKA, V.; KŘENA, B.; LETKO, Z.; UR, S.; VOJNAR, T.

RIV year

2015

Released

30. 4. 2015

ISBN

1099-1689

Periodical

Software Testing Verification and Reliability

Year of study

25

Number

3

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

272

Pages to

309

Pages count

38

URL

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/stvr.1546/abstract

BibTex

@article{BUT119778,
  author="Jan {Fiedor} and Vendula {Dudka} and Bohuslav {Křena} and Zdeněk {Letko} and Shmuel {Ur} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="Advances in Noise-based Testing of Concurrent Programs",
  journal="Software Testing Verification and Reliability",
  year="2015",
  volume="25",
  number="3",
  pages="272--309",
  doi="10.1002/stvr.1546",
  issn="1099-1689",
  url="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/stvr.1546/abstract"
}