Efficient Testing of High-Performance Transaction Processing Systems

Dennis Wildfogel, Ramana Yerneni

Abstract

Testing the reliability of high-performance transaction processing systems poses many difficult challenges that are not adequately answered by conventional testing techniques. We discuss a new test paradigm, which is dynamic and exploratory in nature, and discuss its ability to meet these challenges. We describe an implementation of this paradigm in products that aid in efficiently testing reliable, high-performance transaction processing systems at Tandem Computers Inc.