Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems

Summary: Dynamic, exploratory test paradigm for high-performance transaction processing; tackles reliability and concurrency challenges beyond conventional testing. Describes Tandem's implementation to efficiently test reliable, high-throughput TP systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h112e449f75917c35
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 5.203579e-05
Overall Rank: 9,281 | 37.61%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Dennis Wildfogel (Tandem Computers)
2. Ramana Yerneni (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wildfogel_vldb97,
        title = {{Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems}},
        author = {Wildfogel, Dennis and Yerneni, Ramana},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {595},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,185	Progressive Optimization in a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database	2007	SIGMOD	5.381532e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
498	The Design of XPRS	1988	VLDB	0.00017299238
973	A Benchmark of NonStop SQL on the Debit Credit Transaction	1988	SIGMOD	0.00012757586
2,633	Robustness to Crash in a Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach	1984	VLDB	8.1995095e-05
6,556	High Performance Sql Through Low-Level System Integration	1988	SIGMOD	5.7498641e-05

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