A thread monitoring system for multithreaded Java programs

Moon, Sewon; Chang, Byeong-Mo

doi:10.1145/1149982.1149985

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“…Some of the tools only provide execution monitoring [11] but some tools also provide recovery over the system hangs [6], [17]. Most of the tools providing deadlock detection and recovery are either uses formal verification or temporal logic [3], [4], [5], [6], [14].…”

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“…Most of the tools providing deadlock detection and recovery are either uses formal verification or temporal logic [3], [4], [5], [6], [14]. Some of the tools have dependency over module providing monitoring like IRM [11], observer [15] and expert engine [17]. As discussed in [17], a hang could occur due to responsive or blocking pattern and a blocking pattern could possibly be a third party utility.…”

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Recovery in multithreaded applications using execution monitoring and recovery engine (EMRE)

Kumar

2010

2010 International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM)

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In today's cloud computing world, concurrent programming is must for any application. Multithreaded programming represents one aspect of concurrent programming. Multithreaded programming has some advantages like resource utilization and responsiveness but multithreading has its own disadvantages as well, like race condition and deadlock. A deadlock condition in a multithreaded application could lead to application hang. To overcome application hang and to develop a stable and robust multithreaded application, we propose a recovery design paradigm using an execution monitoring and recovery engine (EMRE). EMRE provides recovery over the hang threads in a multithreaded application and prevents application hang. The recovery module increases the stability and fault tolerance capability of the application. At the end, we present a case study of typical multithreaded program to demonstrate the feasibility and practicability of the recovery paradigm using execution monitoring and recovery engine (EMRE).

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Recovery in multithreaded applications using execution monitoring and recovery engine (EMRE)

Kumar

2010

2010 International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM)

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“…We believe our approach must be used in addition to test tools like this to assure that a failure while re-executing a test that has passed before is in fact a bug and not a timing problem. Regarding threads monitoring, we may cite the work of Moon and Chang [8], which uses the technique of code inlining for monitoring.…”

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Improving Automated Testing of Multi-threaded Software

Dantas¹,

Brasileiro²,

Cirne³

2008

2008 International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation

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This paper discusses an approach to avoid incorrect results in the execution of automatic tests of multi-threaded systems. We argue that such incorrect results have two main sources. First, it is typically difficult to determine when all threads have finished processing and thus when it is safe to perform the test assertions. Second, background threads can change the system state while assertions are being performed, thus producing non-deterministic results. The main contributions of this work are: (i) a generic approach that ensures that test assertions are performed in a safe moment; (ii) implementation details of such an approach using Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP); and (iii) an evaluation of the proposed approach.

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“…threads monitoring, the work by Moon and Chang [Moon and Chang 2006] presents a thread monitoring system for multi-threaded Java programs, which is able of tracing and monitoring running threads and synchronization. One of the main differences between that work and ours is that it does not focus on testing, but mostly on debugging and profiling.…”

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Obtaining Trustworthy Test Results in Multi-threaded Systems

Dantas¹,

Gaudêncio²,

Brasileiro³

et al. 2008

Anais Do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro De Engenharia De Software (SBES 2008)

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Testing multi-threaded systems is quite a challenge. The non-determinism of these systems makes their implementation and their test implementation far more susceptible to error. It is common to have tests of these systems that may not pass sometimes and whose failures are not caused by application faults (bugs). For instance, this can happen when test verifications (assertions) are performed at inappropriate times. Unreliable tests make developers waste their time trying to find non-existing bugs, or else make them search for bugs in the wrong place. Another problem is that developers may cease to believe that certain test failures are caused by software bugs even when this is the case. In this paper, we propose an approach to avoid test failures that are caused, not by application bugs, but by test assertions performed either too early or too late. Our basic idea is to use thread monitoring to support test development. Moreover, we put forward a testing framework that follows the proposed approach, and we also evaluate the effectiveness of this framework for testing a multi-threaded system.

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A thread monitoring system for multithreaded Java programs

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Recovery in multithreaded applications using execution monitoring and recovery engine (EMRE)

Recovery in multithreaded applications using execution monitoring and recovery engine (EMRE)

Improving Automated Testing of Multi-threaded Software

Obtaining Trustworthy Test Results in Multi-threaded Systems

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