Software fault localization is one of the most expensive, tedious, and time-consuming activities in program debugging. This activity becomes even much more challenging in Software Product Line (SPL) systems due to the variability of failures in SPL systems. These unexpected behaviors are caused by variability faults which can only be exposed under some combinations of system features. Although localizing bugs in non-configurable code has been investigated in-depth, variability fault localization in SPL systems still remains mostly unexplored. To approach this challenge, we propose a benchmark for variability fault localization with a large set of 1,570 buggy versions of six SPL systems and baseline variability fault localization performance results. Our hope is to engage the community to propose new and better approaches to the problem of variability fault localization in SPL systems.
@article{arxiv.2107.04741,
title = {Variability Fault Localization: A Benchmark},
author = {Kien-Tuan Ngo and Thu-Trang Nguyen and Son Nguyen and Hieu Dinh Vo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04741},
year = {2021}
}
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Published in Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A (SPLC '21)