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What kinds of bugs do programmers encounter when developing ROS applications? Are those bugs unique to ROS? What can we do to avoid them? To answer these questions, we have been conducting a joint industry-academia effort over a two-year period to systematically identify and forensically analyse 221 bugs across 9 ROS packages from diverse projects. We created ROBUST, a publicly available set of ROS bugs developed in collaboration of several companies and universities engaged with robotics engineering. The dataset consists of carefully described and classified historical issues, along with a scripting machinery that allows to reconstruct a historical setup in which each bug was reported, in order facilitate reproduction and analysis research.

I will analyze the data set of historical issues collected from ROS repositories and ask what kind of bugs are faced by ROS developers. We will classify the bugs and ask ourselves why do they appear, which can be found with automatic analysis and testing tools, and which are inherently difficult due to interactions with hardware and the environment. Finally, we will attempt to derive lessons and best practices for robot developers helping to avoid the identified issues.


Andrzej Wasowski works with design and use of technologies that improve quality of software, including issues such as correctness and maintainability. He has worked extensively with software product line methods---ways to develop software for similar products at lower cost but with higher quality. He has collaborated with open source projects (Linux kernel and ROS among others) and with industry (for example with Danfoss). Currently, he is investigating quality assurance methods for robotics platforms, in the H2020 project ROSIN.
Andrzej Wasowski is a professor of Software Engineering at IT University in Copenhagen (ITU). He holds an MSc degree from Warsaw University of Technology and a PhD degree from ITU. He has previously held visiting positions at Aalborg University (Denmark), INRIA Rennes (France) and University of Waterloo (Canada).