Failures Database
This database contains reports analyzing software failures from the news. Currently, it contains failures from 2010 to 2022. This database was created through the FAIL (Failure Analysis Investigation with LLM) project. FAIL leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to collect and analyze software failures reported in the news. Our work has been presented in the paper titled "FAIL: Analyzing Software Failures from the News Using LLMs." Contributing members include Dharun Anandayuvaraj, Matthew Campbell, Tanmay Singla, Parth Patil, Arav Tewari, and James C. Davis from Purdue University.
| Title | Published Date | System | Number of Articles | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook Helicopter Crash Due to Faulty Software, 1994, RAF, Impacting 29 Lives | 2010-01-04 | 1. Chinook helicopter's computer software [132, 116, 276] | 3 | View Details |
| Windows Mobile SMS Date Bug Incident. | 2010-01-05 | 1. Windows Mobile versions 6.1 and 6.5 [112, 123] | 2 | View Details |
| Chip and Pin Card Software Bug in Germany, 2010 | 2010-01-06 | 1. Chip and pin cards in Germany 2. Microchips in cards that could not recognize the year change to 2010 3. Gemalto software used in the affected cards [Cited Article: 28] | 1 | View Details |
| Ford Fusion Hybrid Braking Software Glitch Investigation | 2010-02-04 | 1. Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids built on or before October 17, 2010 2. Software glitch causing the car to shift unnecessarily from regenerative braking into conventional mode [593] | 1 | View Details |
| Apple iPad False Advertising of Adobe Flash Support. | 2010-01-29 | 1. Apple's promotional material about the iPad implied that the Safari browser could load Adobe Flash content, but the actual devices, including demonstration units presented by Steve Jobs, could not support Flash content [186]. 2. The lack of Flash support on Apple's iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices was a key issue in the software failure incident [186]. 3. The false advertising of Apple products by depicting them correctly utilizing the Flash plug-in when they did not actually support Flash was a significant failure in the incident [186]. | 1 | View Details |
| BlackBerry Storm 2 Buttons and Camera Failure Incident | 2010-03-04 | 1. BlackBerry Storm 2 buttons at the base of the screen 2. BlackBerry Storm 2 camera application | 1 | View Details |
| McAfee Antivirus Update Causes Widespread Windows XP Crashes | 2010-04-23 | 1. McAfee's antivirus software update 2. Windows XP with Service Pack 3 3. SVCHOST.EXE file | 2 | View Details |
| Sony Vaio Laptops Overheat Due to Bios Software Bug | 2010-06-30 | 1. Bios software in Sony Vaio laptops (F and C series) made in January this year and some custom-made models from the same series [2051]. | 1 | View Details |
| iPhone Signal Strength Display Inaccuracy Impacting Users and Apple | 2010-07-02 | 1. Signal strength calculation system in iPhones [2321, 2462, 2468, 2319, 2469] | 5 | View Details |
| iOS4 Update Slows Down iPhone 3G Devices | 2010-07-28 | 1. iPhone 3G devices running iOS4 [2209] | 1 | View Details |