DocumentCode
625512
Title
Reconstructing Core Dumps
Author
Robler, Jeremias ; Zeller, A. ; Fraser, Gordon ; Zamfir, Cristian ; Candea, George
Author_Institution
Saarland Univ., Saarbrucken, Germany
fYear
2013
fDate
18-22 March 2013
Firstpage
114
Lastpage
123
Abstract
When a software failure occurs in the field, it is often difficult to reproduce. Guided by a memory dump at the moment of failure (a “core dump”), our RECORE test case generator searches for a series of events that precisely reconstruct the failure from primitive data. Applied on seven non-trivial Java bugs, RECORE reconstructs the exact failure in five cases without any runtime overhead in production code.
Keywords
Java; program debugging; program testing; RECORE test case generator; core dumps reconstruction; memory dump; nontrivial Java bugs; production code; software failure; Computer bugs; Core dumps; Generators; Java; Runtime; Virtual machining; debugging; failure reproduction; memory dumps; test case generation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Luembourg
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-5961-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICST.2013.18
Filename
6569723
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