Debugging in the (Very) Large: Ten Years of Implementation and Experience.
Windows Error Reporting (WER) is a distributed system that automates the processing of error reports coming from an installed base of a billion machines. WER has collected billions of error reports in 10 years of operation. It collects error data automatically and classifies errors into buckets, whi...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 111 - 117 |
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