Reproducibility of Software Bugs

Flavio Frattini (), Roberto Pietrantuono () and Stefano Russo ()
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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

A chapter in Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation, 2016, pp 551-565 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Bug Reports; MySQL Server; Workload Requests; Concurrency Bugs; Naive Bayes (NB) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30599-8_21

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