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Improving Human-Compiler Interaction Through Customizable Type Feedback

Type errors reported by compilers can sometimes be cryptic, or difficult to understand. In this paper, we propose a type debugging framework that exposes a high-level representation of the typechecking decision-making process that users normally do not hav ...

2014

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

George Candea, Silviu Andrica

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 ...

2013

Automated Debugging for Arbitrarily Long Executions

George Candea, Edouard Bugnion, Johannes Kinder, Cristian Zamfir, Baris Can Cengiz Kasikci

One of the most energy-draining and frustrating parts of software development is playing detective with elusive bugs. In this paper we argue that automated post-mortem debugging of failures is feasible for real, in-production systems with no runtime record ...

2013

Querypoint Debugging (Semi-Automated Inspection of Buggy Execution)

Salman Mirghasemi

Debugging is a hard and time-consuming programming task that appears in the most stages of software development and maintenance. Therefore, any improvement in the debugging practice can significantly reduce the time and costs of software production. In thi ...

EPFL2012

Implementing a Type Debugger for Scala

Martin Odersky, Hubert Plociniczak

Statically-typed languages offer type systems that are less and less comprehensible for programmers as the language grows in complexity. In this paper, we present a type debugger, a tool that enables analysis of type-related problems as well as exploration ...

2012

System and method for in-vivo multi-path analysis of binary software

George Candea, Vitaly Chipounov, Volodymyr Kuznetsov

A system and method for in-vivo multi-path analysis and testing of binary software including binary device drivers is disclosed. The system and method may be used to test a binary software system and may comprise a virtual machine, a symbolic execution eng ...

2012

The S2E Platform: Design, Implementation, and Applications

George Candea, Vitaly Chipounov, Volodymyr Kuznetsov

This article presents S2E, a platform for analyzing the properties and behavior of software systems, along with its use in developing tools for comprehensive performance profiling, reverse engineering of proprietary software, and automated testing of kerne ...

2012

Debugging by lastChange

Claude Petitpierre, Salman Mirghasemi

Developers often seek the origins of wrong values they see in their debugger. Their search must be backwards in time: the code causing the wrong value executed before the wrong value appeared. Searching with breakpoint- or log- based debuggers demands pers ...

2011

Debug Determinism: The Sweet Spot for Replay-Based Debugging

George Candea, Cristian Zamfir

Deterministic replay tools offer a compelling approach to debugging hard-to-reproduce bugs. Recent work on relaxed-deterministic replay techniques shows that replay debugging with low in-production overhead is possible. However, despite considerable progre ...

2011

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