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KBSE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Locating faulty code using failure-inducing chops
Software debugging is the process of locating and correcting faulty code. Prior techniques to locate faulty code either use program analysis techniques such as backward dynamic pr...
Neelam Gupta, Haifeng He, Xiangyu Zhang, Rajiv Gup...
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Profile-guided program simplification for effective testing and analysis
Many testing and analysis techniques have been developed for inhouse use. Although they are effective at discovering defects before a program is deployed, these techniques are oft...
Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Improving software diagnosability via log enhancement
Diagnosing software failures in the field is notoriously difficult, in part due to the fundamental complexity of trouble-shooting any complex software system, but further exacer...
Ding Yuan, Jing Zheng, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou,...
ICONS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Systems Engineering Approach to Exception Handling
Missing or faulty exception handling has caused a number of spectacular system failures and is a major cause of software failures in extensively tested critical systems. Prior wor...
Herbert Hecht
ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamic slicing of multithreaded programs for race detection
Prior work has shown that computing dynamic slices of erroneous program values can greatly assist in locating the root cause of erroneous behavior by identifying faulty statements...
Sriraman Tallam, Chen Tian, Rajiv Gupta