Improved error reporting for software that uses black-box components

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-111

  Ha, Jungwoo ^a   Rossbach, Christopher J ^a   Davis, Jason V ^a   Roy, Indrajit ^a   Ramadan, Hany E ^a   Porter, Donald E ^a   Chen, David L ^a   Witchel, Emmett ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Error report; Machine learning; Profiling; Software support

Indexed keywords

BLACK-BOX SOFTWARE; ERROR INDICATOR; ERROR REPORT; SOFTWARE SUPPORT;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ERROR CORRECTION;

EID: 35448971003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1250734.1250747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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