Dear Developers,
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project has made some interesting
discoveries about the behavior (and misbehavior) of Nautilus and several
other GNOME applications running under Fedora. For those who have not
heard of CBI, we instrument applications for users to download. These
instrumented binaries send us opt-in feedback data about branch
coverage, exit status, etc. For more information, check out the main
CBI site here: <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/>.
For example, we have found that Nautilus 2.14 releases for Fedora 5 were
buggy, with almost one run in ten crashing! Subsequent releases of
Nautilus 2.16 (Fedora 6) and Nautilus 2.18 (Fedora 7) have been much
more stable.
Our CBI Early Findings pages, <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/findings/>,
give more information about trends we have seen in Nautilus and other
applications, including snapshots of the very latest CBI crash data.
These pages are just a small sample of what we could discover in the
data, so we are eager to hear back from all of you. If you have
suggestions or requests for things we could look into, or if you have
any questions or comments, contact us:
<http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/contact/>. We instrument lots of program
actions, not just crashes, so we can also answer questions about feature
use, code coverage, branch behavior, etc.
Also, the more users we have, the more accurate our findings! If you
want to become a part of the CBI community, simply download these
packages: <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/>.
Jason Fletchall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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