CTrigger: exposing atomicity violation bugs from their hiding places
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
CalFuzzer: An Extensible Active Testing Framework for Concurrent Programs
CAV '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
A randomized scheduler with probabilistic guarantees of finding bugs
Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Improved multithreaded unit testing
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Concurrent predicates: a debugging technique for every parallel programmer
PACT '13 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Parallel architectures and compilation techniques
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In program debugging, reproducibility of bugs is a key requirement. Unfortunately, bugs in concurrent programs are notoriously difficult to reproduce because bugs due to concurrency happen under very specific thread schedules and the likelihood of taking such corner-case schedules during regular testing is very low. We propose concurrent breakpoints, a light-weight and programmatic way to make a concurrency bug reproducible. We describe a mechanism that helps to hit a concurrent breakpoint in a concurrent execution with high probability. We have implemented concurrent breakpoints as a light-weight library for Java and C/C++ programs. We have used the implementation to deterministically reproduce several known non-deterministic bugs in real-world concurrent Java and C/C++ programs with almost 100% probability.