Test by distributed monitoring

Author

Peng, Chenglian ; Wu, Baifeng ; Sun, Xiaoguang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

218

Lastpage

223

Abstract

With the evolvement of computer technology, both software system and hardware systems have been developed into large-scale and sophisticated infrastructure. To test these systems, traditional static analysis methods have proved inefficient. This paper introduces a method based on online monitoring. It uses the monitor system MS-1 which is a distributed event-driven hybrid monitor system with synchronous clock system. Online monitor program OM combines the control of the monitor system collection of event traces and simple analysis tools to fulfil the online monitor. OM offers the internal states and the dynamic behavior, giving assistance to debug and test the computer systems, both for hardware and software. Our experience proved that this method can alleviate the difficulties of debugging and testing of parallel and distributed computers efficiently

Keywords

computer debugging; computer testing; computerised monitoring; distributed processing; program debugging; program testing; MS-1 monitor system; OM online monitor program; analysis tools; computer system testing; debugging; distributed computers; distributed monitoring; dynamic behavior; event-driven hybrid monitor system; internal states; online monitoring; parallel computers; synchronous clock system; Clocks; Computerized monitoring; Concurrent computing; Control systems; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Software debugging; Software systems; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Symposium, 1999. (ATS '99) Proceedings. Eighth Asian

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

1081-7735

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0315-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATS.1999.810754

Filename

810754