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Software defect prediction is an essential task during the software development Lifecycle as it can help managers to identify the most defect-proneness modules. Thus, it can reduce the test cost and assign testing resources efficiently.…

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Software Engineering and the implementation of software has become a challenging task as many tools, frameworks and languages must be orchestrated into one functioning piece. This complexity increases the need for testing and analysis…

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The validation of data from sensors has become an important issue in the operation and control of modern industrial plants. One approach is to use knowledge based techniques to detect inconsistencies in measured data. This article presents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Pablo H. Ibarguengoytia , Luis Enrique Sucar , Sunil Vadera

Fault localization is an imperative method in fault tolerance in a distributed environment that designs a blueprint for continuing the ongoing process even when one or many modules are non-functional. Visualizing a distributed environment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Narayanaa S R , Sivaranjan M , Lekshmi R S

One of the biggest expense in software development is the maintenance. Therefore, it is critical to comprehend what triggers maintenance and if it may be predicted. Numerous research have demonstrated that specific methods of assessing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Al Khan , Remudin Reshid Mekuria , Ruslan Isaev

Statistical fault localization is an easily deployed technique for quickly determining candidates for faulty code locations. If a human programmer has to search the fault beyond the top candidate locations, though, more traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Ezekiel Soremekun , Lukas Kirschner , Marcel Böhme , Andreas Zeller

Fault Localization (FL), in which a developer seeks to identify which part of the code is malfunctioning and needs to be fixed, is a recurring challenge in debugging. To reduce developer burden, many automated FL techniques have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sungmin Kang , Gabin An , Shin Yoo

Due to its potential to improve programmer productivity and software quality, automated program repair has been an active topic of research. Newer techniques harness neural networks to learn directly from examples of buggy programs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Marko Vasic , Aditya Kanade , Petros Maniatis , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh

Even competent programmers make mistakes. Automatic verification can detect errors, but leaves the frustrating task of finding the erroneous line of code to the user. This paper presents an automatic approach for identifying potential error…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Robert Koenighofer , Ronald Toegl , Roderick Bloem

Bug fixing is a complex and time-consuming task in software development. Bug localization research tends to focus on the accuracy of automated tools that suggest source code files for developers to look at. However, little is known about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Pablo Diaz Pedreira , Tamara Lopez , Michel Wermelinger

Software testing is a critical element of software quality assurance and represents the ultimate review of specification, design and coding. Software testing is the process of testing the functionality and correctness of software by running…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-01-26 S. S. Riaz Ahamed

Providing high quality software and evaluating the software reliability in softwarized networks are crucial for vendors and customers. These networks rely on open source code, which are sensitive to contain high number of bugs. Both, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Hasan Yagiz Ozkan , Madeleine Kaufmann , Wolfgang Kellerer , Carmen Mas-Machuca

Intensive testing using model-based approaches is the standard way of demonstrating the correctness of automotive software. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art techniques leave a crucial and labor intensive task to the test engineer:…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Mike Becker , Roland Meyer , Tobias Runge , Ina Schaefer , Sören van der Wall , Sebastian Wolff

Testability is the probability whether tests will detect a fault, given that a fault in the program exists. How efficiently the faults will be uncovered depends upon the testability of the software. Various researchers have proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Sujata Khatri , R. S. Chhillar , V. B. Singh

To fix a software bug, you must first find it. As software grows in size and complexity, finding bugs is becoming harder. To solve this problem, measures have been developed to rank lines of code according to their "suspiciousness" wrt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-02 David Landsberg , Earl Barr

Fault localization (FL) is a critical step in debugging, which typically relies on repeated executions to pinpoint faulty code regions. However, repeated executions can be impractical in the presence of non-deterministic failures or high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi , Golnaz Gharachorlu , Sakina Fatima , Lionel C. Briand , Ruiyuan Wan , Ruifeng Gao

Software testing is essential for the reliable development of complex software systems. A key step in software testing is fault localization, which uses test data to pinpoint failure-inducing combinations for further diagnosis. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yi Ji , Simon Mak , Ryan Lekivetz , Joseph Morgan

Context: Fault localization (FL) is the key activity while debugging a program. Any improvement to this activity leads to significant improvement in total software development cost. There is an internal linkage between the program spectrum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Saksham Sahai Srivastava , Arpita Dutta , Rajib Mall

Bug localisation, the study of developing methods to localise the files requiring changes to resolve bugs, has been researched for a long time to develop methods capable of saving developers' time. Recently, researchers are starting to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jesse Maarleveld , Jiapan Guo , Daniel Feitosa

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 variability of failures.…

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