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Debugging and testing are integral parts of the software development process, which provides a model for the development of software products from the initial planning to deployment and maintenance. However, debugging and testing are, although closely related, two completely different tasks which must be clearly distinguished. Software testing is used to verify the reliability and functionality of software products and individual components. This is accomplished by checking their adherence to specified requirements, thus allowing an assessment of the quality of software. If any discrepancies occur during the testing phase, debugging is used to track the reasons why the software fails and to correct the mistakes. Concurrency in applications adds additional error sources and effects, making debugging parallel programs a challenging task. As such, parallel program debugging has to deal with increased complexity, large amounts of data, and effects like race conditions and...
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Klausecker, C., Kranzlmüller, D. (2011). Debugging. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_135
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