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Bugs and Debugging of Concurrent and Multicore Software
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5058-7351
2016 (English)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Mälardalen University Press , 2016.
Series
Mälardalen University Press Licentiate Theses, ISSN 1651-9256 ; 230
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31421ISBN: 978-91-7485-261-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-31421DiVA, id: diva2:919051
Presentation
2016-05-23, Gamma, Mälardalens högskola, Västerås, 10:15 (English)
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SYNOPSIS ProjectAvailable from: 2016-04-13 Created: 2016-04-12 Last updated: 2016-04-27Bibliographically approved
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1. A Study on Concurrency Bugs in an Open Source Software
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2016 (English)In: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 472, 2016, Vol. 472, p. 16-31Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Concurrent programming puts demands on software debugging and testing, as concurrent software may exhibit problems not present in sequential software, e.g., deadlocks and race conditions. In aiming to increase efficiency and effectiveness of debugging and bug-fixing for concurrent software, a deep understanding of concurrency bugs, their frequency and fixingtimes would be helpful. Similarly, to design effective tools and techniques for testing and debugging concurrent software understanding the differences between non-concurrency and concurrency bugs in real-word software would be useful.

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Computer Systems
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urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31417 (URN)10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_2 (DOI)000383203700002 ()2-s2.0-84971537277 (Scopus ID)978-3-319-39224-0 (ISBN)
Conference
12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities, OSS 2016; Gothenburg; Sweden; 30 May 2016 through 2 June 2016
Available from: 2016-04-12 Created: 2016-04-12 Last updated: 2016-10-06Bibliographically approved
2. 10 Years of research on debugging concurrent and multicore software: a systematic mapping study
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2017 (English)In: Software quality journal, ISSN 0963-9314, E-ISSN 1573-1367, Vol. 25, no 1, p. 49-82Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Debugging – the process of identifying, localizing and fixing bugs – is a key activity in software development. Due to issues such as non-determinism and difficulties of reproducing failures, debugging concurrent software is significantly more challenging than debugging sequential software. A number of methods, models and tools for debugging concurrent and multicore software have been proposed, but the body of work partially lacks a common terminology and a more recent view of the problems to solve. This suggests the need for a classification, and an up-to-date comprehensive overview of the area. 

This paper presents the results of a systematic mapping study in the field of debugging of concurrent and multicore software in the last decade (2005– 2014). The study is guided by two objectives: (1) to summarize the recent publication trends and (2) to clarify current research gaps in the field.

Through a multi-stage selection process, we identified 145 relevant papers. Based on these, we summarize the publication trend in the field by showing distribution of publications with respect to year , publication venues , representation of academia and industry , and active research institutes . We also identify research gaps in the field based on attributes such as types of concurrency bugs, types of debugging processes , types of research  and research contributions.

The main observations from the study are that during the years 2005–2014: (1) there is no focal conference or venue to publish papers in this area, hence a large variety of conferences and journal venues (90) are used to publish relevant papers in this area; (2) in terms of publication contribution, academia was more active in this area than industry; (3) most publications in the field address the data race bug; (4) bug identification is the most common stage of debugging addressed by articles in the period; (5) there are six types of research approaches found, with solution proposals being the most common one; and (6) the published papers essentially focus on four different types of contributions, with ”methods” being the type most common one.

We can further conclude that there is still quite a number of aspects that are not sufficiently covered in the field, most notably including (1) exploring correction  and fixing bugs  in terms of debugging process; (2) order violation, suspension  and starvation  in terms of concurrency bugs; (3) validation and evaluation research  in the matter of research type; (4) metric  in terms of research contribution. It is clear that the concurrent, parallel and multicore software community needs broader studies in debugging.This systematic mapping study can help direct such efforts.

National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31419 (URN)10.1007/s11219-015-9301-7 (DOI)000394524400003 ()2-s2.0-84955305408 (Scopus ID)
Projects
SYNOPSIS project
Available from: 2016-04-12 Created: 2016-04-12 Last updated: 2018-10-29Bibliographically approved
3. Towards Classification of Concurrency Bugs Based on Observable Properties
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2015 (English)In: Proceedings - 1st International Workshop on Complex Faults and Failures in Large Software Systems, COUFLESS 2015, 2015, p. 41-47Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In software engineering, classification is a way to find an organized structure of knowledge about objects. Classification serves to investigate the relationship between the items to be classified, and can be used to identify the current gaps in the field. In many cases users are able to order and relate objects by fitting them in a category. This paper presents initial work on a taxonomy for classification of errors (bugs) related to concurrent execution of application level software threads. By classifying concurrency bugs based on their corresponding observable properties, this research aims to examine and structure the state of the art in this field, as well as to provide practitioner support for testing and debugging of concurrent software. We also show how the proposed classification, and the different classes of bugs, relates to the state of the art in the field by providing a mapping of the classification to a number of recently published papers in the software engineering field.

National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-28159 (URN)10.1109/COUFLESS.2015.14 (DOI)000380460500007 ()2-s2.0-84960328955 (Scopus ID)9781479919345 (ISBN)
Conference
First International Workshop on Complex Faults and Failures in Large Software systems, COUFFLESS 2015, May 23, 2015
Projects
SYNOPSIS - Safety Analysis for Predictable Software Intensive Systems
Available from: 2015-06-12 Created: 2015-06-08 Last updated: 2020-10-22Bibliographically approved

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