Using causality to diagnose configuration bugs

Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 281-286

  Attariyan, Mona ^a   Flinn, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL DEPENDENCIES; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; EXECUTION PATHS; TEST SYSTEMS;

EID: 84897813006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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