Debugging in the (very) large: Ten years of implementation and experience

SOSP'09 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 103-116

  Glerum, Kirk ^a   Kinshumann, Kinshuman ^a   Greenberg, Steve ^a   Aul, Gabriel ^a   Orgovan, Vince ^a   Nichols, Greg ^a   Grant, David ^a   Loihle, Gretchen ^a   Hunt, Galen ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue screen of death; Bucketing; Classifying; Error reports; Labeling; Minidump; Statistics based debugging

Indexed keywords

BLUE SCREEN; BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH; BUCKETING; CLASSIFYING; DATA COLLECTION; DATA-BASE SERVERS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; ERROR DATA;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; LABELING; WINDOWS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

ERROR STATISTICS;

EID: 72249113391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1629575.1629586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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