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SPDebugger: A Fine-Grained Deterministic Debugger for Concurrency Code
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When debugging bugs, programmers often prepare test cases to reproduce buggy behaviours. However, for concurrent programs, test cases alone are typically insufficient to reproduce buggy behaviours, due to the nondeterminism of multi-threaded executions. In literature, various approaches have been proposed to reproduce buggy behaviours for concurrency bugs deterministically, but to the best of our knowledge, they are still limited. In particular, we have recognized three debugging scenarios from programming practice, but existing approaches can handle only one of the scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called SPDebugger, that provides finer-grained thread controlling over test cases, programs under test, and even third party library code, to reproduce the predesigned thread execution schedule. The evaluation shows that SPDebugger handles more debugging scenarios than the state-of-the-art tool, called IMUnit, with similar human effort.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E100-D No.3 pp.473-482
- Publication Date
- 2017/03/01
- Publicized
- 2016/12/20
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7388
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Software Engineering
Authors
Ziyi LIN
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yilei ZHOU
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hao ZHONG
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yuting CHEN
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Haibo YU
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jianjun ZHAO
Kyushu University
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Ziyi LIN, Yilei ZHOU, Hao ZHONG, Yuting CHEN, Haibo YU, Jianjun ZHAO, "SPDebugger: A Fine-Grained Deterministic Debugger for Concurrency Code" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E100-D, no. 3, pp. 473-482, March 2017, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7388.
Abstract: When debugging bugs, programmers often prepare test cases to reproduce buggy behaviours. However, for concurrent programs, test cases alone are typically insufficient to reproduce buggy behaviours, due to the nondeterminism of multi-threaded executions. In literature, various approaches have been proposed to reproduce buggy behaviours for concurrency bugs deterministically, but to the best of our knowledge, they are still limited. In particular, we have recognized three debugging scenarios from programming practice, but existing approaches can handle only one of the scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called SPDebugger, that provides finer-grained thread controlling over test cases, programs under test, and even third party library code, to reproduce the predesigned thread execution schedule. The evaluation shows that SPDebugger handles more debugging scenarios than the state-of-the-art tool, called IMUnit, with similar human effort.
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