Software fault localization based on program slicing spectrum

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1511-1514

  Wen, Wanzhi ^a,b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

fault localization; program slicing spectrum; software debugging

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; EXECUTION HISTORY; FAULT LOCALIZATION; PROGRAM SLICING; SOFTWARE DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE FAULT; SOFTWARE FAULT LOCALIZATION; TEST EXECUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84864275059     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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