As any piece of software JVM is not flawless and can occasionally crash. Output of such an extreme failure is usually very cryptic and debugging can get tedious. For this purpose there are special OpenJDK build modes for debugging purposes. It is one of the responsibilities of QA teams to prevent such failures on the customer side. This is why debug build test variants are being run alongside the rest of the testing and heaps of false positive and duplicit failures need to be manually checked. The only failures that are actually interesting for this type of testing are failures with jvm crashes.

The goal of this thesis will be to analyze and propose solutions for basic and more advanced crash detection of JVM and attempt to enhance existing java testing solutions (jtreg, junit) with functionality of crash only testing. Main purpose is to ease the burden of JVM testers.