Reconstructing Core Dumps
- ICST 2013
by
Jeremias Rößler, Andreas Zeller, Gordon Fraser, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea
ICST '13: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, March 2013.
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.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{roessler-icst-2013,
title = "Reconstructing Core Dumps",
author = "Jeremias Rößler and Andreas Zeller and Gordon Fraser and Cristian Zamfir and George Candea",
year = "2013",
month = mar,
booktitle = "ICST '13: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and
Validation",
location = "Luxembourg",
}