Does something like CHESS exist for Java?

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CHESS is a tool for finding and reproducing Heisenbugs in concurrent programs. CHESS repeatedly runs a concurrent test ensuring that every run takes a different interleaving. If an interleaving results in an error, CHESS can reproduce the interleaving for improved debugging. [Source]

Does a tool like this exist for Java?

possible duplicate of [Concurrent code analyzer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6090691/concurrent-code-analyzer) — oluies, Dec 02 '11 at 18:45
Not duplicate, that question is about whether a proposed static code analysis method would work. I ask for a tool like CHESS, which will repeatedly execute Java code and ensure that all possible thread interleaving are exercised. I am not saying that the other questions is not interesting, though. — Bjarke Freund-Hansen, Dec 05 '11 at 07:58

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 02 '11 at 18:57

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Haven't used in personally, but the book Clean Code by Robert C. Martin describes a tool from IBM called ConTest that is supposed to aid concurrent testing similarly:

ConTest - A Tool for Testing Multi-threaded Java Applications

edited Dec 02 '11 at 18:57

Bhesh Gurung

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 02 '11 at 18:59

The only tool I'm aware of that's somewhat like what you're describing is an academic project called RoadRunner, which is described in this paper:

The ROADRUNNER Dynamic Analysis Framework for Concurrent Programs

And available for download here:

The RoadRunner Dynamic Analysis Framework

Again, I don't think that's exactly what you're looking for, but I'm not aware of anything closer. I'll be interested to see if anyone comes up with an exact analogue.

Does something like CHESS exist for Java?

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