Reproducibility of environment-dependent software failures: An experience report

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 267-276

  Cavezza, Davide G ^a   Pietrantuono, Roberto ^a   Russo, Stefano ^a   Alonso, Javier ^b   Trivedi, Kishor S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

debugging; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

EXPERIENCE REPORT; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; FAILURE REPORTS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOFTWARE FAILURE; SQL SERVER SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 84928670777     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2014.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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