Computer Science ›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (11): 195-201.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2017.11.030

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Non-deadlock Concurrency Fault Localization Approach Based on Adequate Test Criteria

CHEN Cheng, ZHENG Zheng, WANG Hao-qin and QIAO Yu   

  • Online:2018-12-01 Published:2018-12-01

Abstract: Concurrency programs are difficult to debug due to their congenital nondeterminism.Fault localization approaches may alleviate such situation.However,their performance heavily depends on the debug information.To allevia-te this problem,we proposed a non-deadlock concurrency fault localization approach based on adequate test criteria.Our approach consists of three parts:a prediction of the conditions meeting an adequate test criteria,a scheme of a test plan satisfied with the criteria,and a fault localization analysis using the debug information.Besides,a prototype called ConFinder based on this approach was implemented in C#.Moreover,experiments on programs containing real concurrency bugs were carried out.The result shows that our approach can localize non-deadlock concurrency bugs effectively and has stable performance.

Key words: Concurrency program,Software testing,Software fault localization

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