On the influence of multiple faults on coverage-based fault localization

2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 210-220

  DiGiuseppe, Nicholas ^a   Jones, James A ^a  

^a 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

debugging; empirical studies; fault localization

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; MULTIPLE FAULTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 80051940437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2001420.2001446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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