Help Wanted: Evaluate our Tool for Automated Debugging

Markus Teich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Collecting good bug reports from users is a challenge, as most users are 
unable (or unwilling) to inspect problems in depth. Existing tools to 
automatically report program failures are often problematic as they 
either produce superficial reports or are prone to leaking private 
information (i.e. by including a full snapshot of the process address 
space in the form of a core dump).

In my Bachelor's thesis, I'm developing Monkey[1], a free software tool 
that automatically generates high-quality privacy-preserving bug reports 
(for C code) which we hope to use for GNUnet and Tor eventually. We have 
reproduced and analyzed a set of real-world bugs using the system and 
would now like to study how well developers can find the bugs using the 
extracted information. Please participate in our public "survey" (or 
rather, experiment) where we measure your performance at identifying 
bugs based on crash reports collected via different methods, including 
traditional stack traces, core dumps (accessed via a *live gdb session*) 
and of course Monkey.

So if you can spare the time, please help our efforts by participating 
in our survey[1] and passing the link to your colleagues and friends. 
(Who finds more bugs faster?)

[0]: https://gnunet.org/monkey/
[1]: https://gnunet.org/monkey/survey/index.php/943594?lang=en

--Markus
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