{"id":114657,"date":"2020-10-18T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/software-spots-and-fixes-hang-bugs-in-seconds-rather-than-weeks"},"modified":"2020-10-18T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T05:27:19","slug":"software-spots-and-fixes-hang-bugs-in-seconds-rather-than-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/software-spots-and-fixes-hang-bugs-in-seconds-rather-than-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Software spots and fixes hang bugs in seconds, rather than weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qiwqPBleOQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hang bugs\u2014when software gets stuck, but doesn\u2019t crash\u2014can frustrate both users and programmers, taking weeks for companies to identify and fix. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that can spot and fix the problems in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us have experience with hang bugs\u2014think of a time when you were on website and the wheel just kept spinning and spinning,\u201d says Helen Gu, co-author of a paper on the work and a professor of computer science at NC State. \u201cBecause these bugs don\u2019t crash the program, they\u2019re hard to detect. But they can frustrate or drive away customers and hurt a company\u2019s bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, Gu and her collaborators developed an automated program, called HangFix, that can detect hang bugs, diagnose the relevant problem, and apply a patch that corrects the root cause of the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hang bugs\u2014when software gets stuck, but doesn\u2019t crash\u2014can frustrate both users and programmers, taking weeks for companies to identify and fix. Now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that can spot and fix the problems in seconds. \u201cMany of us have experience with hang bugs\u2014think of a time when you were on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}