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 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 …

Notice of Retraction: Does Refactoring of Test Smells Induce Fixing Flaky Tests? Page 1
Document Retracted from IEEE Xplore® It was recommended and agreed upon by the authors …

Software testing is a key activity to control the reliability of production code. Unfortunately,
the effectiveness of test cases can be threatened by the presence of faults. Recent work …

Understanding the root cause of a defect is critical to isolating and repairing buggy behavior.
We present Causal Testing, a new method of root-cause analysis that relies on the theory of …

Regression testing is the activity performed by developers to check whether new
modifications have not introduced bugs. A crucial requirement to make regression testing …

Fault localization (FL) analyzes the execution information of a test suite to pinpoint the root
cause of a failure. The class imbalance of a test suite, ie, the imbalanced class proportion …

In practically all development processes, regression tests are used to detect the presence of
faults after a modification. If faults are detected, a fault localization algorithm can be used to …

Testing-based fault-localization (TBFL) approaches often require the availability of high-
statement-coverage test suites that sufficiently exercise the areas around the faults …

With the considerable success achieved by modern fuzzing infrastructures, more crashes
are produced than ever before. To dig out the root cause, rapid and faithful crash triage for …