Paper Info
Title
Reproducibility of Environment-Dependent Software Failures: An Experience Report
Abstract
We investigate the dependence of software failure reproducibility on the environment in which the software is executed. The existence of such dependence is ascertained in literature, but so far it is not fully characterized. In this paper we pinpoint some of the environmental components that can affect the reproducibility of a failure and show this influence through an experimental campaign conducted on the My SQL Server software system. The set of failures of interest is drawn from My SQL's failure reports database and an experiment is designed for each of these failures. The experiments expose the influence of disk usage and level of concurrency on My SQL failure reproducibility. Furthermore, the results show that high levels of usage of these factors increase the probabilities of failure reproducibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISSRE.2014.19
ISSRE
Keywords
Field
DocType
software testing, debugging,computer bugs,servers,memory management,debugging,testing
SQL,Computer science,Software bug,Real-time computing,Software system,Regression testing,Software reliability testing,Software verification and validation,Software construction,Reliability engineering,Software development
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1071-9458
6
0.43
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davide G. Cavezza160.43
Roberto Pietrantuono235730.48
Javier Alonso3505.20
Stefano Russo472878.07
Trivedi, K.S.57721700.23