Publication detail

Discovering Concurrency Errors

LOURENCO, J. FIEDOR, J. KŘENA, B. VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

Discovering Concurrency Errors

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

Lots of concurrent software is being developed for the now ubiquitous multicore processors. And concurrent programming is diffi- cult because it is quite easy to introduce errors that are really hard to diagnose and fix. One of the main obstacles to concurrent program- ming is that threads are scheduled nondeterministically and their inter- actions may become hard to predict and to devise. This chapter addresses the nature of concurrent programming and some classes of concurrency errors. It discusses the application of dynamic program analysis tech- niques to detect, locate and diagnose some common concurrency errors like data races, atomicity violations and deadlocks. This chapter also mentions some techniques that can help with quality assurance of con- current programs, regardless of any particular class of concurrency errors, like noise injection and systematic testing, and it is closed by some prospects of concurrent software development.

Keywords

Software correctness, quality assurance, nondeterminism, concurrency errors, atomicity violations, data races, deadlocks, dynamic analysis, noise injection.

Authors

LOURENCO, J.; FIEDOR, J.; KŘENA, B.; VOJNAR, T.

Released

11. 2. 2018

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Location

Cham

ISBN

978-3-319-75632-5

Book

Lectures on Runtime Verification: Introductory and Advanced Topics

Edition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10457

Pages from

34

Pages to

60

Pages count

27

URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75632-5_2

BibTex

@inbook{BUT155054,
  author="Joao {Lourenco} and Jan {Fiedor} and Bohuslav {Křena} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="Discovering Concurrency Errors",
  booktitle="Lectures on Runtime Verification: Introductory and Advanced Topics",
  year="2018",
  publisher="Springer International Publishing",
  address="Cham",
  series="Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10457",
  pages="34--60",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-319-75632-5\{_}2",
  isbn="978-3-319-75632-5",
  url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75632-5_2"
}

Documents

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