Fault localization using value replacement

ISSTA'08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 167-177

  Jeffrey, Dennis ^a   Gupta, Neelam ^a   Gupta, Rajiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated debugging; Fault localization; Interesting Value mapping pair; Value replacement

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DEBUGGING; BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; FAULT LOCALIZATION; FAULT LOCALIZATIONS; INTERESTING VALUE MAPPING PAIR; PROGRAM STATEMENTS; VALUE REPLACEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 57449115450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390630.1390652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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