Effects of class imbalance in test suites: An empirical study of spectrum-based fault localization

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 470-475

  Gong, Cheng ^a   Zheng, Zheng ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Hao, Peng ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Class imbalance; Empirical study; Spectrum based fault localization

Indexed keywords

CLASS IMBALANCE; CLASS IMBALANCE LEARNING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXECUTION INFORMATIONS; FAULT LOCALIZATION; SOFTWARE FAULT LOCALIZATION; TEST CASE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84870848665     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSACW.2012.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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