Extending continuous integration with post-mortem debug automation of unhandled exceptions occurred in kernel or user mode applications

Abstract

The paper proposes extension of the Continuous Integration practices with debug automation of unhandled exceptions. Goal of this improvement is to reduce the amount of redundant work when inspecting hundreds of failed tests from possibly the same reason, and to decrease time necessary to provide a fix to the codebase. The suitable CI infrastructure is proposed and an automatic method how to eliminate duplicated bugs is discussed. Also an example of such automation in the Windows operating system is presented.