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Re: Testing Race Conditionsby jbert (Priest) |
on Jul 03, 2007 at 12:14 UTC ( [id://624651]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Another approach is to try a load test and then pick over the system to make sure all actions completed correctly.
e.g. on an email server you could try sending 10,000 messages with 10 senders in parallel, wait a while and then ensure that all 10,000 messages where successfully delivered (and not corrupted). This isn't a reliable test against race conditions, but tests like this can help expose them. You can also get a feel for the efficacy of the test by running it against your unfixed code and seeing how reliably it reproduces the problem. This isn't intended as a replacement for the more deterministic testing suggested above, but it can be a useful tool to help shake out bugs in code which allows parallel processing. It would perhaps not be part of your unit tests, but perhaps your system tests (those run prior to release).
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