Detail

Publication date: 1 de June, 2021

PADTAD 2007 – Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing and Debugging

The PADTAD 2007 workshop is a full-day event at ISSTA 2007 focusing on techniques and systems that aid in the debugging and testing of multi-threaded/parallel/distributed applications systems. The workshop has a practical and applied emphasis on systems that have been implemented in (at least) prototype form. This workshop concentrates on works whose main contributions are in the field of testing and debugging.

Although debuggers and profilers are the traditional examples of these tools on sequential machines, there are issues unique to Multi-threaded/Parallel/Distributed systems that are not commonly addressed. Examples of such significant challenges in Multi-threaded/Parallel/Distributed systems include deadlock, load imbalance, data sharing patterns, race conditions, and contention. In order to find certain classes of bugs in Multi-threaded/Parallel/Distributed applications, specific timing conditions are required. As a result, timing bugs are found very late in the testing process or by end users. Many established testing techniques and tools are insufficient for non-sequential programs.

---