The effectiveness of using non redundant test cases with program spectra for bug localization

Proceedings - 2009 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, ICCSIT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 127-134

  Lee, Hua Jie ^a   Naish, Lee ^a   Ramamohanarao, Kotagiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; PROGRAM SPECTRA; REDUNDANT TESTS; SIEMENS; SOFTWARE BUG;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TESTING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 70449133895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCSIT.2009.5234587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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