A Principled Approach Towards Debugging Communicating Event-Loops
Since the multicore revolution, software systems are more and more inherently concurrent. Debugging such concurrent software systems is still hard, but in the recent years new tools and techniques are being proposed. For such novel debugging techniques, the main question is how to make sure that the proposed techniques are sufficiently expressive. In this paper, we explore a formal foundation to provide researchers with a principled approach to identify the design space for the proposed debugging techniques and assess how complete their set of debugging features is. In particular, we describe a principled approach for defining the operational semantics of a debugger. Subsequently, we apply this technique in order to derive the operational semantics for a communicating event-loop debugger. We show that our technique scales for defining the semantics of a wide set of novel breakpoints recently proposed by systems such as REME-D and Kómpos. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first formal semantics for debugging asynchronous message passing-based concurrency models.
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13:30 - 15:00: Session 2: Runtime Environments and DebuggingAGERE at Prince of Wales Chair(s): Joeri De KosterVrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium | |||
13:30 - 14:00 Talk | Locality-Guided Scheduling in CAF AGERE File Attached | ||
14:00 - 14:30 Talk | A Principled Approach Towards Debugging Communicating Event-Loops AGERE Carmen Torres Lopez, Stefan MarrUniversity of Kent, Elisa Gonzalez BoixVrije Universiteit Brussel, Hanspeter MössenböckJKU Linz, Austria, Christophe ScholliersUniversiteit Gent, Belgium | ||
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