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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
POPL
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Mutatis mutandis: safe and predictable dynamic software updating
Dynamic software updates can be used to fix bugs or add features to a running program without downtime. Essential for some applications and convenient for others, low-level dynami...
Gareth Stoyle, Michael W. Hicks, Gavin M. Bierman,...
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Use of relative code churn measures to predict system defect density
Software systems evolve over time due to changes in requirements, optimization of code, fixes for security and reliability bugs etc. Code churn, which measures the changes made to...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball
SOSP
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Debugging in the (very) large: ten years of implementation and experience
Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has collected billion...
Kirk Glerum, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Steve Greenberg...
AOSD
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Debugging with control-flow breakpoints
Modern source-level debuggers support dynamic breakpoints that are guarded by conditions based on program state. Such breakpoints address situations where a static breakpoint is n...
Rick Chern, Kris De Volder