Eliminating harmful redundancy for testing-based fault localization using test suite reduction: An experimental study

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 683-686

  Hao, Dan ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Zhong, Hao ^a   Mei, Hong ^a   Sun, Jiasu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORMING TEST SUITE REDUCTION; SOURCE PROGRAMS; TESTING-BASED FAULT LOCALIZATION (TBFL);

PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REDUNDANCY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33646924305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2005.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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