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Analysis of 125K+ configurations of the Linux kernel (build/compilation phase)
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How many samples do we need to cover all bugs? #2

Open FAMILIAR-project opened 5 years ago

FAMILIAR-project commented 5 years ago

We have used 125K+ configurations and observed that some lead to build failures/bugs... It's an incredible amount of resources: retrospectively, can't we use a smaller sample and still find the failures/bugs? can we actively learn to prevent failures [1]? can we find failures that would justify to gather more data (builds)?

[1] we did that last summer by putting some constraints we learned