How should I unit test threaded code?

Question

I have thus far avoided the nightmare that is testing multi-threaded code since it just seems like too much of a minefield. I\'d like to ask how people have gone about test

Answer 1

For Java, check out chapter 12 of JCIP. There are some concrete examples of writing deterministic, multi-threaded unit tests to at least test the correctness and invariants of concurrent code.

"Proving" thread-safety with unit tests is much dicier. My belief is that this is better served by automated integration testing on a variety of platforms/configurations.