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Reproducibility of Software Bugs

In: Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation

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  • Flavio Frattini

    (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

  • Roberto Pietrantuono

    (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

  • Stefano Russo

    (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Abstract

Understanding software bugs and their effects is important in several engineering activities, including testing, debugging, and design of fault containment or tolerance methods. Dealing with hard-to-reproduce failures requires a deep comprehension of the mechanisms leading from bug activation to software failure. This chapter surveys taxonomies and recent studies about bugs from the perspective of their reproducibility, providing insights into the process of bug manifestation and the factors influencing it. These insights are based on the analysis of thousands of bug reports of a widely used open-source software, namely MySQL Server. Bug reports are automatically classified according to reproducibility characteristics, providing figures about the proportion of hard to reproduce bug their features, and evolution over releases.

Suggested Citation

  • Flavio Frattini & Roberto Pietrantuono & Stefano Russo, 2016. "Reproducibility of Software Bugs," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: Lance Fiondella & Antonio Puliafito (ed.), Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation, pages 551-565, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-3-319-30599-8_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30599-8_21
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