Automatic recovery of root causes from bug-fixing changes

• Main Authors: THUNG, Ferdian, LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: learning (artificial intelligence); program debugging; program diagnostics; reverse engineering; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2025; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3024/viewcontent/wcre13_rootcause.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

What is the root cause of this failure? This question is often among the first few asked by software debuggers when they try to address issues raised by a bug report. Root cause is the erroneous lines of code that cause a chain of erroneous program states eventually leading to the failure. Bug track...