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information about AskIgor or to schedule an interview,
please contact
Andreas Zeller
AskIgor project leader
Phone: +49 (0)681 302-64011
Fax: +49 (0)681 302-64012
press@askigor.org
Andreas speaks English, German, and French.
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Reviewer's Guide
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reviewing AskIgor:
Programs are buggy.
The annual loss of revenues through programming bugs is
numbered in the billions. A study by the US Department of
Commerce in July 2002 has shown that programming bugs
cause annual revenue losses of $59.5 billion to the US
economy alone. About a third of these losses could be
avoided through the use of better testing and debugging
procedures.
Debugging is currently a manual task.
While much of programming has been automated, support for
debugging—identifying and removing bugs— is
still in its infancy. Programmers can easily spend hours
and hours chasing down one single bug. Although tools
("debuggers") are available that allow programmers to
inspect program runs, programmers must still know where to
search for the bug.
Can we automate debugging?
AskIgor demonstrates that much of debugging can be
automated. In particular, AskIgor promises to identify
the failure cause automatically—that is, 90% of the
debugging work. It remains to be seen whether how
effective automated debugging can be—which is
exactly the question AskIgor is set to answer.
Isn't prevention better than cure?
One could argue that if we only prevented all bugs from
happening, there would be no need for debugging. As long
as humans write programs, though, we'll have to live with
bugs, and therefore, there is a need for a cure. This is
where AskIgor steps in.
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