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How do fixes become bugs?

Zuoning Yin, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou, Shankar Pasupathy, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram

Abstract

Software bugs affect system reliability. When a bug is exposed in the field, developers need to fix them. Unfortunately, the bug-fixing process can also introduce errors, which leads to buggy patches that further aggravate the damage to end users and erode software vendors' reputation.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Yin-al:FSE11,
  author    = {Zuoning Yin and
               Ding Yuan and
               Yuanyuan Zhou and
               Shankar Pasupathy and
               Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram},
  title     = {How do fixes become bugs?},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {26--36},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2011},
}

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