May 17, 2004

Statistical Debugging-- Media Technology --

This is cute — download a special version of open-source software like Evolution, Gaim, The Gimp, Nautilus, or Rhythmbox from The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project and they'll randomly sample usage paterns to try to automatically detect bugs that make software crash. Unlike the usual "this application has unexpectedly quit, shall I email a crash log to the developer" kind of thing, this one collects sparse data from both crashes and normal use, enabling an automated classifier to tease out what the differences were.

Posted by bug to Media Technology at May 17, 2004 12:27 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Have you ried this software out yet? Did you have any problems? By the way Doc, this is Hans.

Posted by: Nigritude at May 18, 2004 8:52 AM

Hi Hans! No, I haven't tried it yet.

I figured it was you from the "Nigritude Ultramarine" URL — how come you used a different one than you did yesterday? Do you get better results if you diseminate multiple pages and cross-link with yourself?

Posted by: Bug at May 20, 2004 2:20 AM
Post a comment












Anonymous posting is allowed, as are these HTML tags — a href, b, br, p, strong, em, ul, li, blockquote.
Email addresses are spam-protected.

You must have Javascript enabled to comment, due to the code I'm using to try to outwit spammers. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Remember Me