Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why?
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Extended static checking for Java
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Bug isolation via remote program sampling
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Locating causes of program failures
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Scalable statistical bug isolation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
SOBER: statistical model-based bug localization
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
A Technique for Enabling and Supporting Debugging of Field Failures
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Context-aware statistical debugging: from bug predictors to faulty control flow paths
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
An observation-based model for fault localization
WODA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on dynamic analysis: held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2008)
ReCrash: Making Software Failures Reproducible by Preserving Object States
ECOOP '08 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Snugglebug: a powerful approach to weakest preconditions
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
HOLMES: Effective statistical debugging via efficient path profiling
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Accurate Interprocedural Null-Dereference Analysis for Java
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Capturing propagation of infected program states
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
SherLog: error diagnosis by connecting clues from run-time logs
Proceedings of the fifteenth edition of ASPLOS on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Execution synthesis: a technique for automated software debugging
Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Computer systems
Directed test generation for effective fault localization
Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on Software testing and analysis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Improving software diagnosability via log enhancement
Proceedings of the sixteenth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Striking a new balance between program instrumentation and debugging time
Proceedings of the sixth conference on Computer systems
Cause clue clauses: error localization using maximum satisfiability
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers?
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
BugRedux: reproducing field failures for in-house debugging
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
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As confirmed by a recent survey among developers of the Apache, Eclipse, and Mozilla projects, failures of the software that occur in the field, after deployment, are difficult to reproduce and investigate in house. To address this problem, we propose an approach for in-house reproducing and debugging failures observed in the field. This approach can synthesize several executions similar to an observed field execution to help reproduce the observed field behaviors, and use these executions, in conjunction with several debugging techniques, to identify causes of the field failure. Our initial results are promising and provide evidence that our approach is able to reproduce failures using limited field execution information and help debugging.