Spectrum enhanced dynamic slicing for better fault localization

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 242, Issue , 2012, Pages 420-425

  Hofer, Birgit ^a   Wotawa, Franz ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; DYNAMIC SLICING; EXECUTION TRACE; FAULT LOCALIZATION; HITTING SETS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; LOCATION OF FAULT; PROGRAM EXECUTION; SPECTRA'S; TEST CASE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84874385172     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-098-7-420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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