Locating causes of program failures

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 342-351

  Cleve, Holger ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive testing; Automated debugging; Program analysis; Tracing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TESTING; AUTOMATED DEBUGGING; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE FAILURE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 33244494414     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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