Isolating failure causes through test case generation

2012 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 309-319

  Rößler, Jeremias ^a   Fraser, Gordon ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^a   Orso, Alessandro ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated debugging; failure classification; statistical debugging; test case generation

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM DEBUGGING; TESTING;

AUTOMATED DEBUGGING; DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME; EXPERIMENT TESTS; FAILURE CLASSIFICATION; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; LOCAL TIME; PROPERTY; STATISTICAL DEBUGGING; TEST CASE GENERATION; TEST RUNS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84865292473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/04000800.2336790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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