A similarity-aware approach to testing based fault localization

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 291-294

  Hao, Dan ^a   Pan, Ying ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a   Mei, Hong ^a   Sun, Jiasu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Debugging; Fault localization; Fuzzy set; Maintenance

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGING; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; NORMAL TEST; REAL-WORLD; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEST CASE; TEST SUITE REDUCTION; THEORY OF FUZZY SETS; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

TESTING;

EID: 34247099315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1101908.1101953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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