The project aims to counter software bugs in the "real" world

Nov 10, 2011 13:05 GMT  ·  By

Ben Liblit, an associate professor at the Computer Sciences Department from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has announced that the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 16.

As he pointed out, CBI (Cooperative Bug Isolation) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world, a project in which everybody can participate, whether they are a programmer or not.

Through the CBI project, the developers distribute modified versions of popular open source software packages. These specific packages monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work or how they fail to work.

The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project offers instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM.

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