GAMBIT: Effective unit testing for concurrency libraries

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-24

  Coons, Katherine E ^a   Burckhardt, Sebastian ^b   Musuvathi, Madanlal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Concurrency; Model checking; Multithreading; Partial order reduction; Preemption bound; Software testing

Indexed keywords

BEST FIRST SEARCH; CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING; ERROR PRONES; FRAME-WORK; MICROSOFT'S .NET FRAMEWORK; MODEL-CHECKING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-THREADING; PARTIAL-ORDER REDUCTION; PROGRAMMER PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; STRESS TESTING; UNIT TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; LIBRARIES; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTIVITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 77749280368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1693453.1693458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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