Despite being one of the most basic tasks in software development, debugging is still
performed in a mostly manual way, leading to high cost and low performance. To address …

A key part of software evolution and maintenance is the continuous integration from
collaborative efforts, often resulting in complex traceability challenges between software …

Learning-based fault localization has been intensively studied recently. Prior studies have
shown that traditional Learning-to-Rank techniques can help precisely diagnose fault …

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 …

The application of information retrieval techniques to search tasks in software engineering is
made difficult by the lexical gap between search queries, usually expressed in natural …

The performance of fault localization techniques is critical to their adoption in practice. This
paper reports on an empirical study of a wide range of fault localization techniques on real …

Developers often need to search for appropriate APIs for their programming tasks. Although
most libraries have API reference documentation, it is not easy to find appropriate APIs due …

When a new bug report is received, developers usually need to reproduce the bug and
perform code reviews to find the cause, a process that can be tedious and time consuming …

The automated task of locating the potential buggy files in a software project given a bug
report is called bug localization. Bug localization helps developers focus on crucial files …

Debugging is a costly process that consumes much of developer time and energy. To help
reduce debugging effort, many studies have proposed various fault localization approaches …