A technique for enabling and supporting debugging of field failures

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-270

  Clause, James ^a   Orso, Alessandro ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

FAILING EXECUTIONS; FIELD FAILURES;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 34548789041     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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