An entropy evaluation approach for triaging field crashes: A case study of Mozilla Firefox

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 261-270

  Khomh, Foutse ^a   Chan, Brian ^a   Zou, Ying ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bug; Crash; entropy region graphs; triaging

Indexed keywords

BUG; CRASH; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION APPROACH; FIREFOX; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; MOZILLA; RUN-TIME INFORMATION; TRIAGING;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ENTROPY;

EID: 83455213230     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2011.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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