Stateful Dynamic Partial Order Reduction for Model Checking Event-Driven Applications that Do Not Terminate

@inproceedings{Trimananda2021StatefulDP,
  title={Stateful Dynamic Partial Order Reduction for Model Checking Event-Driven Applications that Do Not Terminate},
  author={Rahmadi Trimananda and Weiyu Luo and Brian Demsky and Guoqing Harry Xu},
  booktitle={International Conference on Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation},
  year={2021}
}
Event-driven architectures are broadly used for systems that must respond to events in the real world. Event-driven applications are prone to concurrency bugs that involve subtle errors in reasoning about the ordering of events. Unfortunately, there are several challenges in using existing model-checking techniques on these systems. Event-driven applications often loop indefinitely and thus pose a challenge for stateless model checking techniques. On the other hand, deploying purely stateful… 
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