Reproducing Field Failures for Programs with Complex Grammar-Based Input

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@InProceedings{Kifetew:2014:ICST,

• author = "Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew and Wei Jin and Roberto Tiella and Alessandro Orso and Paolo Tonella",
• title = "Reproducing Field Failures for Programs with Complex Grammar-Based Input",
• booktitle = "Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2014",
• year = "2014",
• pages = "163--172",
• address = "Cleveland, Ohio, USA",
• month = mar # " 31-" # apr # " 4",
• publisher = "IEEE",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• isbn13 = "978-0-7695-5185-2",
• URL = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2014.29",
• DOI = "doi:10.1109/ICST.2014.29",
• timestamp = "Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:07:36 +0200",
• biburl = "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/icst/KifetewJTOT14",
• bibsource = "dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org",
• size = "10 pages",
• abstract = "To isolate and fix failures that occur in the field, after deployment, developers must be able to reproduce and investigate such failures in-house. In practice, however, bug reports rarely provide enough information to recreate field failures, thus making in-house debugging an arduous task. This task becomes even more challenging for programs whose input must adhere to a formal specification, such as a grammar. To help developers address this issue, we propose an approach for automatically generating inputs that recreate field failures in-house. Given a faulty program and a field failure for this program, our approach exploits the potential of grammar-guided genetic programming to iteratively find legal inputs that can trigger the observed failure using a limited amount of runtime data collected in the field. When applied to 11 failures of 5 real-world programs, our approach was able to reproduce all but one of the failures while imposing a limited amount of overhead.",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{DBLP:conf/icst/KifetewJTOT14} \cite{6823878}",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew Wei Jin Roberto Tiella Alessandro Orso Paolo Tonella

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