Enhancing fault localization via multivariate visualization

Proceedings - IEEE 5th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 737-741

  Masri, Wes ^a   Assi, Rawad Abou ^a   Zaraket, Fadi ^a   Fatairi, Nour ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

coincidental correctness; coverage based fault localization; Multivariate visualization

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENTAL CORRECTNESS; DYNAMIC SOFTWARES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA; MULTIVARIATE VISUALIZATION; OTHER APPLICATIONS; SCATTER PLOTS; SIMILARITY METRICS; SOFTWARE ANALYSIS; TEST CASE;

SOFTWARE TESTING; VISUALIZATION;

SAFETY FACTOR;

EID: 84862330016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2012.166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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