A grouping-based strategy to improve the effectiveness of fault localization techniques

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-22

  Debroy, Vidroha ^a   Wong, W Eric ^a   Xu, Xiaofeng ^a   Choi, Byoungju ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fault localization; Grouping based strategy; Software program debugging; Suspiciousness of code

Indexed keywords

FAULT LOCALIZATION; GROUPING-BASED STRATEGY; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NEURAL NETWORKS; SIEMENS; SOFTWARE/PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SUSPICIOUSNESS OF CODE;

NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 77958174686     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2010.80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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