Abstract In 1997, Henry Lieberman stated that debugging is the dirty little secret of computer
science. Since then, several promising debugging technologies have been developed such …

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 …

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 …

An important research area of Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) is the
effectiveness of risk evaluation formulas. Most previous studies have adopted an empirical …

Spectrum-based fault localization shortens the test-diagnose-repair cycle by reducing the
debugging effort. As a light-weight automated diagnosis technique it can easily be …

Spectrum-based fault localization (SFL) shortens the test–diagnose–repair cycle by
reducing the debugging effort. As a light-weight automated diagnosis technique it can easily …

Automated diagnosis of software faults can improve the efficiency of the debugging process,
and is therefore an important technique for the development of dependable software. In this …

The interplay of multiple objects in object-oriented programming often follows specific
protocols, for example certain orders of method calls and/or control structure constraints …

A large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging,
including both automated fault localization and program repair. However, existing fault …

Automated localization of software bugs is one of the essential issues in debugging aids.
Previous studies indicated that the evaluation history of program predicates may disclose …