Mitigating the effect of coincidental correctness in spectrum based fault localization

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 479-482

  Bandyopadhyay, Aritra ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

coincidental correctness; fault localization; Ochiai

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENTAL CORRECTNESS; FAULT LOCALIZATION; OCHIAI; RESEARCH PLANS; TEST CASE;

FORECASTING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

TESTING;

EID: 84862339725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2012.130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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