Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 273-282

  Jones, James A ^a   Harrold, Mary Jean ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated debugging; Empirical study; Fault localization; Program analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DEBUGGING; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; HIGH COSTS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; PROGRAM ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 77952348762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1101908.1101949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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