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Finding Failure Causes through Automated Testing

Software Engineering 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A program fails. Under which circumstances does this failure occur? One single algorithm, the delta debugging algorithm, suffices to determine these failure-inducing circumstances. Delta debugging tests a program systematically and automatically to isolate failure-inducing circumstances such as the program input, changes to the program code, or executed statements.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0012009,
  title  = {Finding Failure Causes through Automated Testing},
  author = {Holger Cleve and Andreas Zeller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0012009},
  year   = {2007}
}