Subj : Re: Unit Testing for Thread-Safe code
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Gianni Mariani
Date : Tue Mar 08 2005 01:36 am

Initial-N wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is proabably a very stupid question, yet anyone might have
> thought of, when they try to programm anything in parallel system.
> 
> I wonder if there is any existing way/pattern/code/tool or even
> practice for doing unit testing for any source code/class/module for
> thread-safe issue.
> I believe any effort to make code thread-safe, and always run an unit
> testing for your code is a first-step of defensive programming
> practice, before getting into the crazy mutli-threaded bug.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any comment.

I usually invoke an "array" of threads to test the code in question.

See Austria C++ http://austria.sourceforge.net/.  There will soon be a 
new release that has more tests.

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