Indexing noncrashing failures: A dynamic program slicing-based approach

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 455-464

  Liu, Chao ^a   Zhang, Xiangyu ^b   Han, Jiawei ^a   Zhang, Yu ^b   Bhargava, Bharat K ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION THEORY; MAINTENANCE;

BUG CHARACTERISTICS; CASE STUDIES; DYNAMIC PROGRAM SLICING; DYNAMIC SLICING; END-USERS; FAILURE DATA; FAILURE DIAGNOSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47349130977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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