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Modern programmers routinely use third-party code, and infrastructure operators deploy software they did not write. This would not be possible without semantic interfaces---documentation, header files, specifications---that succinctly describe what that th ...

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Automatic generation of program execution that reaches a given failure point

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An execution of a target software program that causes a particular bug to manifest itself is generated. A target software program is received. A bug report generated by an execution of the target software program is received. The bug report describes a par ...

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Current Practice in Software Development for Computational Neuroscience and How to Improve It

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Public Library of Science2014

Execution Synthesis: A Technique for Automating the Debugging of Software

Cristian Zamfir

Debugging real systems is hard, requires deep knowledge of the target code, and is time-consuming. Bug reports rarely provide sufficient information for debugging, thus forcing developers to turn into detectives searching for an explanation of how the prog ...

EPFL2013

Mitigating Anonymity Challenges in Automated Testing and Debugging Systems

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Modern software often provides automated testing and bug reporting facilities that enable developers to improve the software after release. Alas, this comes at the cost of user anonymity: reported execution traces may identify users. We present a way to mi ...

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Querypoint Debugging (Semi-Automated Inspection of Buggy Execution)

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Striking a New Balance Between Program Instrumentation and Debugging Time

Olivier Crameri, Willy Zwaenepoel, Ricardo Bianchini

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Debug Determinism: The Sweet Spot for Replay-Based Debugging

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Querypoint : Moving Backwards on Wrong Values in the Buggy Execution

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As developers debug, they often have to seek the origins of wrong values they see in their debugger. This search must be performed backwards in time since the code causing the wrong value is executed before the wrong value appears. Therefore, locating the ...

2011

Execution Synthesis: A Technique for Automated Software Debugging

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A multitasking and data-driven architecture for multi-agents simulations

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