Bugbase : reliable experiments

What is Bugbase ?

Bugbase is a framework for evaluating bug detection and root cause diagnosis tools.

It was developed as part of an Intel-EPFL collaboration in the context of our Failure Sketching work.

How can Bugbase help me ?

If you have a bug detection/classification/root cause diagnosis tool to evaluate, bugbase allows you to do that with a simple plugin architecture.

Using Bugbase

This is a quick introductory guide on how to use Bugbase. If you want more information, please see the complete documentation.

Getting the sources

Install Bugbase from Github using git with

$ git clone [email protected]:dslab-epfl/bugbase

Configuring Bugbase

Bugbase has a configure.py script that will automatically install various plugins and configure Bugbase to work the way you want

$ ./configure.py

You can also edit conf/custom.conf . Details are explained in the complete documentation (see complete documentation)

Preparing benchmarks

Once you configure Bugbase, you need to install the programs to run your experiments on

$ ./install.py ${program_names or all} #(see ./install.py --help for more information)

Running experiments

Experiments can be launched with run.py

$ ./run.py <plugin> <program_name>

For example you could use :

$ ./run.py success pbzip-2094

For more information, please see

$ ./run.py --help

Building documentation

You can obtain the complete documentation by

$ sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx

And then you can build the documentation by

$ cd ${bugbase_root}/doc; make {html,pdf, etc}

This will generate the Bugbase documentation in your preferred format.