Microsoft "Cuzz": Fault injection testing optimized to find concurrency flaws

Posted by tptacek on Friday November 20, 2009 @03:53PM
from the reddevnews.com dept.

http://reddevnews.com/blogs/desmond-file/2009/11/microsoft-cuzz-parallel-testing.aspx

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Re:Microsoft "Cuzz": Fault injection testing optimized to fi... by tptacek on Friday November 20, 2009 @03:55PM (#953390)

Looks like it's internal-only right now, but that doesn't matter, because the idea is so simple OSS folks could duplicate this quickly: Cuzz deterministically messes up thread scheduling to increase the chance that you'll hit a race.

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Re:Microsoft "Cuzz": Fault injection testing optimized to fi... by Kaya on Saturday November 21, 2009 @06:04PM (#955073)

For a comparison with PetraVM's Jinx, see: http://petravm.com/blog/2009/11/comparing-cuzz-and-jinx/

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