Finding race conditions in Erlang with quick check and pulse

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ICFP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 149-160

  Claessen, Koen ^a   Pałka, Michal ^a   Smallbone, Nicholas ^a   Hughes, John ^a   Svensson, Hans ^a   Arts, Thomas ^a   Wiger, Ulf ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Erlang Training and Consulting   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Erlang; Quickcheck; Race conditions

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT PROGRAM; RACE CONDITION; SYSTEM TESTING; TESTING AND DEBUGGING; UNIT TESTING; VISUALIZERS;

FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

HAZARDS AND RACE CONDITIONS;

EID: 70450170111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1596550.1596574     Document Type: Conference Paper

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