An empirical study of reported bugs in server software with implications for automated bug diagnosis

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 485-494

  Sahoo, Swarup Kumar ^a   Criswell, John ^a   Adve, Vikram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

bug characteristics; bug reports; network servers; testing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS; BUG REPORTS; DIAGNOSIS TOOLS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; NETWORK SERVER; PRODUCTION RUN; PRODUCTION SITES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SERVER APPLICATIONS; SERVER SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE FAILURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SERVERS;

PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 77954705964     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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