A Survey on Software Fault Localization

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2016

Authors

Wong, WE (Author) Other; Gao, RZ (Author) Other; Li, YH (Author) Other; Rui Abreu (Author) FEUP; Wotawa, F (Author) Other

Journal

Title: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Vol. 42

Pages: 707-740

ISSN: 0098-5589

Publisher: IEEE

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-QVM

DOI: 10.1109/tse.2016.2521368

Abstract (EN): Software fault localization, the act of identifying the locations of faults in a program, is widely recognized to be one of the most tedious, time consuming, and expensive - yet equally critical - activities in program debugging. Due to the increasing scale and complexity of software today, manually locating faults when failures occur is rapidly becoming infeasible, and consequently, there is a strong demand for techniques that can guide software developers to the locations of faults in a program with minimal human intervention. This demand in turn has fueled the proposal and development of a broad spectrum of fault localization techniques, each of which aims to streamline the fault localization process and make it more effective by attacking the problem in a unique way. In this article, we catalog and provide a comprehensive overview of such techniques and discuss key issues and concerns that are pertinent to software fault localization as a whole.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 34