An evaluation of pure spectrum-based fault localization techniques for large-scale software systems

• Main Authors: HEIDEN, Simon, GRUNSKE, Lars, KEHRER, Timo, KELLER, Fabian, VAN HOORN, Andre, FILIERI, Antonio, LO, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Debugging; Empirical studies; Fault localization; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4408; https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.2703
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Pure spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) is a well-studied statistical debugging technique that only takes a set of test cases (some failing and some passing) and their code coverage as input and produces a ranked list of suspicious program elements to help the developer identify the location o...