Projecting code changes onto execution traces to support localization of recently introduced bugs

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 438-442

  Bohnet, Johannes ^a   Voigt, Stefan ^a   Döllner, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Fault localization; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CODE CHANGES; CODE MODIFICATIONS; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; EXECUTION TRACE; FAULT LOCALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; REGRESSION TESTS; ROOT CAUSE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS; TRACE EXPLORATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 72949105789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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