Poster: BugZoo - A Platform for Studying Software Bugs

Proposing a new method for automatically detecting, localising, or repairing software faults requires a fair, reproducible evaluation of the effectiveness of the method relative to existing alternatives. Measuring effectiveness requires both an indicative set of bugs, and a mechanism for reliably re...

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Published in2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion (ICSE-Companion) pp. 446 - 447
Main Authors Timperley, Christopher Steven, Stepney, Susan, Goues, Claire Le
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published ACM 01.05.2018
Subjects
bug framework
bug reproduction
BugZoo
Computer bugs
Containers
Docker
GenProg
Java
Maintenance engineering
ManyBugs
open science
real bugs
Software
software bugs
Software engineering
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ISSN2574-1934
DOI10.1145/3183440.3195050

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Summary:Proposing a new method for automatically detecting, localising, or repairing software faults requires a fair, reproducible evaluation of the effectiveness of the method relative to existing alternatives. Measuring effectiveness requires both an indicative set of bugs, and a mechanism for reliably reproducing and interacting with those bugs. We present BugZoo: a decentralised platform for distributing, reproducing, and interacting with historical software bugs. connects existing datasets and tools to developers and researchers, and provides a controlled environment for conducting experiments. To ensure reproducibility, extensibility, and usability, BugZoo uses Docker containers to package, deliver, and interact with bugs and tools. Adding BugZoo support to existing datasets and tools is simple and non-invasive, requiring only a small number of supplementary files. BugZoo is open-source and available to download at: https://github.com/squaresLab/BugZoo
ISSN:2574-1934
DOI:10.1145/3183440.3195050