Sat 21 Nov 2020 03:40 - 04:00 at SPLASH-III - F-5B Chair(s): Sophia Drossopoulou, Julien Lange
Large scale production distributed systems are difficult to design and test.
Correctness must be ensured when processes run asynchronously, at arbitrary rates relative to each other,
and in the presence of failures, e.g., process crashes or message losses. These conditions
create a huge space of executions that is difficult to explore in a principled way.
Current testing techniques focus on systematic or randomized exploration of all executions
of an implementation while treating the implemented algorithms as black boxes.
On the other hand, proofs of correctness of many of the underlying algorithms often exploit
semantic properties that reduce reasoning about correctness to a subset of behaviors.
For example, the \emph{communication-closure} property, used in many proofs of distributed
consensus algorithms, shows that every asynchronous execution of the algorithm is equivalent to
a \emph{lossy synchronous} execution, thus reducing the burden of proof to only that subset.
In a lossy synchronous execution, processes execute in lock-step rounds, and messages are either
received in the same round or lost forever—such executions form a small subset of all asynchronous ones.
We formulate the \emph{communication-closure hypothesis},
which states that bugs in implementations of distributed consensus algorithms will already manifest in
lossy synchronous executions and present a testing algorithm based on this hypothesis.
We prioritize the search space based on a bound on the number of failures in the execution
and the rate at which these failures are recovered.
We show that a random testing algorithm based on sampling lossy synchronous executions
can empirically find a number of bugs—including previously unknown ones—in production
distributed systems such as Zookeeper, Cassandra, and Ratis,
and also produce more understandable bug traces.
Fri 20 Nov Times are displayed in time zone: Central Time (US & Canada) change
15:00 - 16:20: F-5BOOPSLA at SPLASH-III +12h Chair(s): Mohsen LesaniUniversity of California at Riverside, USA, Aviral GoelNortheastern University | |||
15:00 - 15:20 Talk | Programming at the Edge of Synchrony OOPSLA Cezara DrăgoiInria / ENS / CNRS / PSL University / Informal Systems, Josef WidderInformal Systems, Damien ZuffereyMPI-SWS Link to publication DOI | ||
15:20 - 15:40 Talk | Rethinking Safe Consistency in Distributed Object-Oriented Programming OOPSLA Mirko KöhlerTU Darmstadt, Nafise EskandaniTU Darmstadt, Pascal WeisenburgerTU Darmstadt, Alessandro MargaraPolitecnico di Milano, Guido SalvaneschiUniversity of St. Gallen Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
15:40 - 16:00 Talk | Testing Consensus Implementations using Communication Closure OOPSLA Cezara DrăgoiInria / ENS / CNRS / PSL University / Informal Systems, Constantin EneaUniversity of Paris / IRIF / CNRS, Burcu Kulahcioglu OzkanMPI-SWS, Rupak MajumdarMPI-SWS, Filip NiksicGoogle Link to publication DOI Media Attached |
Sat 21 Nov Times are displayed in time zone: Central Time (US & Canada) change
03:00 - 04:20: F-5BOOPSLA at SPLASH-III Chair(s): Sophia DrossopoulouImperial College London, Julien LangeRoyal Holloway University of London | |||
03:00 - 03:20 Talk | Programming at the Edge of Synchrony OOPSLA Cezara DrăgoiInria / ENS / CNRS / PSL University / Informal Systems, Josef WidderInformal Systems, Damien ZuffereyMPI-SWS Link to publication DOI | ||
03:20 - 03:40 Talk | Rethinking Safe Consistency in Distributed Object-Oriented Programming OOPSLA Mirko KöhlerTU Darmstadt, Nafise EskandaniTU Darmstadt, Pascal WeisenburgerTU Darmstadt, Alessandro MargaraPolitecnico di Milano, Guido SalvaneschiUniversity of St. Gallen Link to publication DOI Media Attached | ||
03:40 - 04:00 Talk | Testing Consensus Implementations using Communication Closure OOPSLA Cezara DrăgoiInria / ENS / CNRS / PSL University / Informal Systems, Constantin EneaUniversity of Paris / IRIF / CNRS, Burcu Kulahcioglu OzkanMPI-SWS, Rupak MajumdarMPI-SWS, Filip NiksicGoogle Link to publication DOI Media Attached |