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To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging.

The authors discuss the creation of a tool to record bugs in software development. They mention the development of a record-and-replay process to examine bugs after discovery, how this helped improve the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the use of nondeterministic behavior and failures to help track the...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 63; no. 8; pp. 34 - 41
Main Authors: O'Callahan, Robert, Huey, Kyle, O'Dell, Devon, Coatta, Terry
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2020
Subjects:
Defect tracking (Computer software development)
Software development tools
Mozilla Firefox (Computer software)
Data loggers
Deterministic processes
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The authors discuss the creation of a tool to record bugs in software development. They mention the development of a record-and-replay process to examine bugs after discovery, how this helped improve the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the use of nondeterministic behavior and failures to help track the bugs.