Isolating suspiciousness from spectrum-based fault localization techniques

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 385-392

  Xie, Xiaoyuan ^a,b   Chen, Tsong Yueh ^a   Xu, Baowen ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Debugging; Fault localization; Program spectrum; Risk evaluation

Indexed keywords

DEBUGGING; EVALUATION SCHEME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; INDEFINITE INFORMATION; LOCATION OF FAULT; PROGRAM SPECTRA; REFINEMENT METHODS; RISK EVALUATION;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 77958168374     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2010.45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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