Such uncertainty is all the more poignant in novice practitioners that are still learning the science, art and craft of proper software testing or debugging.This paper contributes several important results to software testing and debugging in the form of an effective fault localization methodology. ...
Since the birth of software, fault localization has been a time-consuming and laborious task. Programmers need to constantly find faults in software through program logging, assertions, breakpoints, and profiling. In order to improve the debugging efficiency, many fault localization methods based on ...
In subject area: Computer Science Fault localization refers to the task of automatically identifying statements or program elements that may be responsible for a program failure. It involves analyzing the program structure and using causal models to determine the impact of different elements on the fai...
Extended abstract of "spectrum-based fault localization in software product lines": [journal first] Testing Software Product Lines (SPLs) is a challenging approach due to the huge number of products under test. Most of the SPL testing approaches have proposed novel ideas to make verification and ...
Fault localization is to identify faulty program elements. Among a large number of fault localization approaches in the literature, coverage-based fault localization, especially spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL), has been intensively studied due to its effectiveness and lightweightness. Despite the...
Fault localization techniques, which seek to identify faulty program statements as quickly as possible, can assist developers in alleviating the time and manual cost of software debugging. Mutation-based fault localization(MBFL) has a promising fault localization accuracy, but suffered from huge ...
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摘要: Developing effective debugging strategies to guarantee the reliability of software is important. By analyzing the debugging process used by experienced programmers, we have found that four distinct...关键词: critical slicing debugging dynamic program slicing failures fault localization faults mutation...
Tool support for automated fault localization in program debugging is limited because state-of-the-art algorithms often fail to provide efficient help to t
Testing and debugging are very important tasks in software development. Fault localization is a very critical activity in the debugging process and also is one of the most difficult and time-consuming activities. The demand for effective fault localization techniques that can aid developers to the lo...