A Survey on Software Crash Analyses

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey on Software Crash Analyses"

by

Mr. Rongxin WU


Abstract:

Software crashes are severe manifestations of software bugs. When these crashes 
occur at the sites where software systems are deployed for production, they are 
notorious for bad user experience and need to be fixed with a high priority. 
Since the crash information at client sites is useful for debugging crashes, 
both industrial companies and open source communities have developed and 
deployed crash reporting systems to collect the crash relevant information. 
With the collected data, to debug and to fix the crashing bugs still require 
non-trivial work. Thus, many analyses are proposed to diagnose the crashing 
bugs. In this survey, we focus on reviewing existing research works of software 
crash analyses, including any analysis towards understanding, debugging, and 
fixing crashing bugs. First, we introduce the possible diagnosis activities 
during the software development lifecycle. Second, we introduce existing 
researches of software crash analyses for different crash diagnosis activities, 
and discuss their applicability in production software. Finally, we will 
explore some promising research directions in this area.


Date:			Thursday, 14 April 2016

Time:                  	2:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:                  Room 3588
                         Lifts 27/28

Committee Members:	Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Charles Zhang (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Sunghun Kim
 			Dr. Raymond Wong


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