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Quick verification of concurrent programs by iteratively relaxed scheduling

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  • P. Metzler
  • H. Saissi
  • P. Bokor
  • Neeraj Suri
  • Nguyen T.N. (Editor)
  • Rosu G. (Editor)
  • Di Penta M. (Editor)
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Publication date30/10/2017
Host publication2017 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
PublisherIEEE
Pages776-781
Number of pages6
ISBN (electronic)9781538626849
ISBN (print)9781538639764
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The most prominent advantage of software verification over testing is a rigorous check of every possible software behavior. However, large state spaces of concurrent systems, due to non-deterministic scheduling, result in a slow automated verification process. Therefore, verification introduces a large delay between completion and deployment of concurrent software. This paper introduces a novel iterative approach to verification of concurrent programs that drastically reduces this delay. By restricting the execution of concurrent programs to a small set of admissible schedules, verification complexity and time is drastically reduced. Iteratively adding admissible schedules after their verification eventually restores non-deterministic scheduling. Thereby, our framework allows to find a sweet spot between a low verification delay and sufficient execution time performance. Our evaluation of a prototype implementation on well-known benchmark programs shows that after verifying only few schedules of the program, execution time overhead is competitive to existing deterministic multi-threading frameworks. © 2017 IEEE.