Optimal tracing and incremental reexecution for debugging long-running programs
PLDI '94 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1994 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Residual test coverage monitoring
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
jRapture: A Capture/Replay tool for observation-based testing
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Extracting usability information from user interface events
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Reversible Debugging Using Program Instrumentation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
GAMMATELLA: visualizing program-execution data for deployed software
Information Visualization - Special issue: Software visualization
Scalable statistical bug isolation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Profiling Deployed Software: Assessing Strategies and Testing Opportunities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
BugNet: Continuously Recording Program Execution for Deterministic Replay Debugging
Proceedings of the 32nd annual international symposium on Computer Architecture
Selective capture and replay of program executions
WODA '05 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Dynamic analysis
Automatic test factoring for java
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Isolating relevant component interactions with JINSI
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Dynamic systems analysis
Carving differential unit test cases from system test cases
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Flashback: a lightweight extension for rollback and deterministic replay for software debugging
ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Debugging reinvented: asking and answering why and why not questions about program behavior
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
An approach to detecting duplicate bug reports using natural language and execution information
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
ReCrash: Making Software Failures Reproducible by Preserving Object States
ECOOP '08 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
An empirical study of the factors that reduce the effectiveness of coverage-based fault localization
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems: Held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2009)
Penumbra: automatically identifying failure-relevant inputs using dynamic tainting
Proceedings of the eighteenth international symposium on Software testing and analysis
ReCrashJ: a tool for capturing and reproducing program crashes in deployed applications
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Increasing Test Granularity by Aggregating Unit Tests
ASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Extracting and answering why and why not questions about Java program output
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Monitoring, analysis, and testing of deployed software
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Camouflage: automated anonymization of field data
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Minimizing reproduction of software failures
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Locating failure-inducing environment changes
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools
Bug localization in test-driven development
Advances in Software Engineering
BugRedux: reproducing field failures for in-house debugging
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Practical isolation of failure-inducing changes for debugging regression faults
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Predicting method crashes with bytecode operations
Proceedings of the 6th India Software Engineering Conference
F3: fault localization for field failures
Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Chronicler: lightweight recording to reproduce field failures
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Reproducing and debugging field failures in house
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Value-deterministic search-based replay for android multithreaded applications
Proceedings of the 2013 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems
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It is difficult to fully assess the quality of software inhouse, outside the actual time and context in which it will execute after deployment. As a result, it is common for software to manifest field failures, failures that occur on user machines due to untested behavior. Field failures are typically difficult to recreate and investigate on developer platforms, and existing techniques based on crash reporting provide only limited support for this task. In this paper, we present a technique for recording, reproducing, and minimizing failing executions that enables and supports inhouse debugging of field failures. We also present a tool that implements our technique and an empirical study that evaluates the technique on a widely used e-mail client.