Interactive Fault Localization Using Test Information

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 962-974

  Hao, Dan ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Xie, Tao ^b   Mei, Hong ^a   Sun, Jia Su ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; Fault localization; Interactive approach

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; BREAK-POINTS; BREAKPOINT; CHECKING POINT; DEBUGGING; DEBUGGING PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; FEED BACK INFORMATION; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEST CASE; TEST INFORMATION; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 70349606642     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-009-9270-z     Document Type: Article

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