"Automated debugging considered harmful" considered harmful: A user study revisiting the usefulness of spectra-based fault localization techniques with professionals using real bugs from large systems

• Main Authors: XIA, Xin, BAO, Lingfeng, LO, David, LI, Shanping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Computer bugs; Debugging; Open source software; Java; Outsourcing; Software maintenance; User Study; Automated Debugging; Spectra-Based Fault Localization; Empirical Study; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3752; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4754/viewcontent/3806a267.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Due to the complexity of software systems, bugs are inevitable. Software debugging is tedious and time consuming. To help developers perform this crucial task, a number of spectra-based fault localization techniques have been proposed. In general, spectra-based fault localization helps developers to...