Debugging of concurrent systems is a tedious and error-prone activity. A main issue is that there is no guarantee that a bug that appears in the original computation is replayed inside the debugger. This problem is usually tackled by so-called replay debugging, which allows the user to record a program execution and replay it inside the debugger. In this paper, we present a novel technique for replay debugging that we call controlled causal-consistent replay. Controlled causal-consistent replay allows the user to record a program execution and, in contrast to traditional replay debuggers, to reproduce a visible misbehavior inside the debugger including all and only its causes. In this way, the user is not distracted by the actions of other, unrelated processes.

Lanese I., Palacios A., Vidal G. (2019). Causal-Consistent Replay Debugging for Message Passing Programs. Springer Verlag [10.1007/978-3-030-21759-4_10].

Causal-Consistent Replay Debugging for Message Passing Programs

Lanese I.;
2019

Abstract

Debugging of concurrent systems is a tedious and error-prone activity. A main issue is that there is no guarantee that a bug that appears in the original computation is replayed inside the debugger. This problem is usually tackled by so-called replay debugging, which allows the user to record a program execution and replay it inside the debugger. In this paper, we present a novel technique for replay debugging that we call controlled causal-consistent replay. Controlled causal-consistent replay allows the user to record a program execution and, in contrast to traditional replay debuggers, to reproduce a visible misbehavior inside the debugger including all and only its causes. In this way, the user is not distracted by the actions of other, unrelated processes.
2019
Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems. FORTE 2019
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Lanese I., Palacios A., Vidal G. (2019). Causal-Consistent Replay Debugging for Message Passing Programs. Springer Verlag [10.1007/978-3-030-21759-4_10].
Lanese I.; Palacios A.; Vidal G.
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