GZoltar: An Eclipse Plug-In for Testing and Debugging

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

José Campos (Author) FEUP; Andre Riboira (Author) Other; Alexandre Perez (Author) Other; Rui Abreu (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2012 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 27TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ASE)

Pages: 378-381

27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

Essen, GERMANY, SEP 03-07, 2012

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-005-3Z1

DOI: 10.1145/2351676.2351752

Abstract (EN): Testing and debugging is the most expensive, error-prone phase in the software development life cycle. Automated testing and diagnosis of software faults can drastically improve the efficiency of this phase, this way improving the overall quality of the software. In this paper we present a toolset for automatic testing and fault localization, dubbed GZoltar, which hosts techniques for (regression) test suite minimization and automatic fault diagnosis (namely, spectrum-based fault localization). The toolset provides the infrastructure to automatically instrument the source code of software programs to produce runtime data. Subsequently the data was analyzed to both minimize the test suite and return a ranked list of diagnosis candidates. The toolset is a plug-and-play plug-in for the Eclipse IDE to ease world-wide adoption.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4