Researchers have used execution profiles to enable coverage-based techniques in areas
such as defect detection and fault localization. Typical profile elements include functions …

Test suite reduction (TSR) aims at removing redundant test cases from regression test
suites. A typical TSR approach ensures that structural profile elements covered by the …

Fault localization and repair are time-consuming and tedious. There is a significant and
growing need for automated techniques to support such tasks. Despite significant progress …

In software testing, different metrics are proposed to predict and compare test suites
effectiveness. In this regard, Mutation Score (MS) is one of most accurate metrics. However …

According to the reachability–infection–propagation (RIP) model, three conditions must be
satisfied for program failure to occur:(1) the defect's location must be r eached,(2) the …

Fault localization is important for software development and maintenance. Among existing
techniques, spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) is effective to locate bugs based on the …

Coincidental correctness (CC) arises when a defective program produces the correct output
despite the fact that the defect within was exercised. Researchers have recognized the …

Execution profiles form the basis of many dynamic program analysis techniques developed
to solve problems in fields such as software testing, fault localization, and program …

Finding a bug in the software is an expensive task, however, debugging is a crucial part of
the software development life cycle. Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) algorithms …

Spectral fault localization is an automatic fault-localization technique to expedite debugging,
which uses risk evaluation formula to rank the risk of fault existence in each program entity …