SCARPE: A Technique and Tool for Selective Capture and Replay of Program Executions

Because of software’s increasing dynamism and the heterogeneity of execution environments, the results of in-house testing and maintenance are often not representative of the way the software behaves in the field. To alleviate this problem, we present a technique for capturing and replaying partial executions of deployed software. Our technique can be used for various applications, including generation of test cases from user executions and post-mortem dynamic analysis. We present our technique and tool, some possible applications, and a preliminary empirical evaluation that provides initial evidence of the feasibility of our approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Shrinivas Joshi, Alessandro Orso
• Keywords: ICSM 2007, Partial Executions, Preliminary Empirical Evaluation, Software Engineering, Software’s Increasing Dynamism