Assessing the commercial viability of the Undo Flight Recorder: a new technology that assists in the diagnosis and fixing of Linux and Android software failures in the field.

根据剑桥大学的研究，开发人员花费50%的开发时间进行调试，这对整个行业和整个经济来说都是巨大的成本。Undo Software是Linux和Android软件质量工具的领先供应商，目前正在开发一种新技术来协助诊断和修复Linux软件故障：Undo Flight Recorder （UFR）。软件是由为软件供应商工作的开发人员编写的，并由最终用户使用。有缺陷的软件给软件供应商带来了巨大的成本，给最终用户带来了更大的成本。为了分析最终用户报告的软件故障，开发人员必须在他们的计算机上重现错误，或者，如果失败，则前往最终用户站点重现问题。这两种选择都是耗时且昂贵的，而且总是存在问题无法重现的风险。UFR是一个错误报告系统，它通过消除重现错误的需要来解决这个问题。一旦嵌入到软件供应商的程序中，UFR使程序能够记录自己。结果记录包含有缺陷的代码执行的指令级记录，即有缺陷的程序所做的一切。然后开发人员可以将UFR记录加载到自己的机器上以查找和修复错误；节省时间和金钱，维护公司声誉。Undo认为UFR具有巨大的市场潜力，因为任何在linux和Android上编写C/ c++的垂直领域都可以使用UFR。其中包括：嵌入式、汽车、电信、网络和企业等。然而，Undo只能看到一个市场：电子设计自动化（EDA），因为它目前的产品正被销售到这个垂直市场。PoM补助金将用于了解不同市场的产品和市场需求，按吸引力顺序对市场进行排名，并了解UFR为每个垂直市场带来的引人注目的“价值主张”。

According to Cambridge University research, developers spend 50% of their developmenttime debugging, representing significant cost to the industry and to the economy as a whole.Undo Software, leading supplier of software quality tools for Linux and Android, is currentlydeveloping a new technology to assist in the diagnosis and fixing of Linux software failures:the Undo Flight Recorder (UFR). Software is written by developers working for a softwarevendor, and consumed by an end user. Buggy software creates significant costs to thesoftware vendor and represents even greater costs to the end user. To analyse an end userreported software failure, developers must either reproduce the error on their computer or, ifthat fails, travel to the end user site to reproduce the issue there. Both options are timeconsuming and expensive, and there is always the risk that the issue cannot be reproduced.The UFR is an error-reporting system that resolves this issue by removing the need toreproduce bugs. Once embedded into the software vendor’s program, UFR enables theprogram to record itself. The resulting recording contains an instruction-level recording of thedefective code’s execution, i.e. everything the buggy program did. Developers can then loadthe UFR recording onto their own machine to find and fix the bug; saving time and money,and preserving company reputation.Undo believes the UFR has huge market potential as any vertical which writes C/C++ onLinux and Android could use the UFR. These include: embedded, automotive,telecommunications, web and enterprise, amongst others. However, Undo only has visibilityinto one market: Electronic Design Automation (EDA), as its current product is being soldinto this vertical. The PoM grant will be used to understand the product and marketrequirements of different markets, to rank the markets in order of attractiveness and tounderstand the compelling ‘value proposition’ the UFR brings to each vertical.