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POPL 2021
Sun 17 - Fri 22 January 2021 Online
Tue 19 Jan 2021 16:00 - 16:30 at PADL - Declarative Approaches to Testing and Debugging Chair(s): Paul Tarau

Bug-free concurrent programs are hard to write due to nondeterminism arising out of concurrency and program inputs. Since concurrency bugs typically manifest under specific inputs and thread schedules, conventional testing methodologies for concurrent programs like stress testing and random testing, which explore random schedules, have a strong chance of missing buggy schedules. In this paper, we introduce a novel technique that combines property-based testing with mutation-based, grey box fuzzer, applied to event-driven OCaml programs. We have implemented this technique in ConFuzz, a directed concurrency bug-finding tool for event-driven OCaml programs. Using ConFuzz, programmers specify high-level program properties as assertions in the concurrent program. ConFuzz uses the popular greybox fuzzer AFL to generate inputs as well as concurrent schedules to maximise the likelihood of finding new schedules and paths in the program so as to make the assertion fail. ConFuzz does not require any modification to the concurrent program, which is free to perform arbitrary I/O operations. Our experimental results show that ConFuzz is easy-to-use, effective, detects concurrency bugs faster than Node.Fz - a random fuzzer for event-driven JavaScript programs, and is able to reproduce known concurrency bugs in widely used OCaml libraries.

Tue 19 Jan

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16:00 - 17:30
Declarative Approaches to Testing and DebuggingPADL at PADL
Chair(s): Paul Tarau University of North Texas
16:00
30m
Research paper
ConFuzz: Coverage-guided Property Fuzzing for Event-driven Programs
PADL
Sumit Padhiyar Indian Institue Of Technology, Madras, KC Sivaramakrishnan IIT Madras
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16:30
30m
Research paper
Causal-Consistent Reversible Debugging: Improving CauDEr
PADL
Juan José González-Abril MiST, VRAIN, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
17:00
30m
Research paper
Declarative Debugging of XML Queries
PADL
Jesus M. Almendros-Jimenez Universidad de Almeria, Antonio Becerra-Teron University of Almeria