Minimizing Faulty Executions of Distributed Systems

Authors: 

Colin Scott and Aurojit Panda, University of California, Berkeley; Vjekoslav Brajkovic, International Computer Science Institute; George Necula, University of California, Berkeley; Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and International Computer Science Institute

Abstract: 

When troubleshooting buggy executions of distributed systems, developers typically start by manually separating out events that are responsible for triggering the bug (signal) from those that are extraneous (noise). We present DEMi, a tool for automatically performing this minimization. We apply DEMi to buggy executions of two very different distributed systems, Raft and Spark, and find that it produces minimized executions that are between 1X and 4.6X the size of optimal executions.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {194938,
author = {Colin Scott and Vjekoslav Brajkovic and George Necula and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Scott Shenker},
title = {Minimizing Faulty Executions of Distributed Systems},
booktitle = {13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16)},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-931971-29-4},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {291--309},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/scott},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar,
}
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