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In a buggy configurable system, configuration-dependent bugs cause the failures in only certain configurations due to unexpected interactions among features. Manually localizing configuration-dependent faults in configurable systems could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Son Nguyen

Background: Debugging is a key task during the software development cycle. Spectrum-based Fault Localization (SFL) is a promising technique to improve and automate debugging. SFL techniques use control-flow spectra to pinpoint the most…

Bug Localization is the process of locating potential error-prone files or methods from a given bug report and source code. There is extensive research on bug localization in the literature that focuses on applying information retrieval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sandeep Muvva , A Eashaan Rao , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Software product lines (SPL) have emerged as a pivotal paradigm in software engineering, enabling the efficient development of variant-rich software systems. Consistently updating these systems, often through over-the-air updates, enables…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Johannes Stümpfle , Nasser Jazdi , Michael Weyrich

Fault localization is one of the most time-consuming and error-prone parts of software debugging. There are several tools for helping developers in the fault localization process, however, they mostly target programs written in Java and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Qusay Idrees Sarhan , Attila Szatmari , Rajmond Toth , Arpad Beszedes

Fault localization is a critical process that involves identifying specific program elements responsible for program failures. Manually pinpointing these elements, such as classes, methods, or statements, which are associated with a fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ratnadira Widyasari , Jia Wei Ang , Truong Giang Nguyen , Neil Sharma , David Lo

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

Despite its massive popularity as a programming language, especially in novel domains like data science programs, there is comparatively little research about fault localization that targets Python. Even though it is plausible that several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Mohammad Rezaalipour , Carlo A. Furia

The rapid escalation of applying Machine Learning (ML) in various domains has led to paying more attention to the quality of ML components. There is then a growth of techniques and tools aiming at improving the quality of ML components and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Zhen Ming , Jiang

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

Software bugs significantly contribute to software cost and increase the risk of system malfunctioning. In recent years, many automated program-repair approaches have been proposed to automatically fix undesired program behavior. Despite of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Dirk Beyer , Lars Grunske , Thomas Lemberger , Minxing Tang

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development. Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

Software vulnerabilities can have serious consequences, which is why many techniques have been proposed to defend against them. Among these, vulnerability detection techniques are a major area of focus. However, there is a lack of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yingzhou Bi , Jiangtao Huang , Penghui Liu , Lianmei Wang

Context and motivation: Software Product Lines (SPL) enable the creation of software product families with shared core components using feature models to model variability. Choosing features from a feature model to generate a product may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 David de Castro , Alejandro Cortiñas , Miguel R. Luaces , Oscar Pedreira , Ángeles Saavedra Places

Open source software (OSS) is integral to modern product development, and any vulnerability within it potentially compromises numerous products. While developers strive to apply security patches, pinpointing these patches among extensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jinhong Yu , Yi Chen , Di Tang , Xiaozhong Liu , XiaoFeng Wang , Chen Wu , Haixu Tang

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development and circuit design. Several formula-based fault localisation (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Pedro Orvalho , Marta Kwiatkowska , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

Software defect datasets, which are collections of software bugs, are essential resources to facilitate empirical research and enable standardized benchmarking for a wide range of software engineering techniques, including emerging areas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Hao-Nan Zhu , Robert M. Furth , Michael Pradel , Cindy Rubio-González

Behavioral models are the key enablers for behavioral analysis of Software Product Lines (SPL), including testing and model checking. Active model learning comes to the rescue when family behavioral models are non-existent or outdated. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Shaghayegh Tavassoli , Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Ramtin Khosravi

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

The software development process is characterized by an iterative cycle of continuous functionality implementation and debugging, essential for the enhancement of software quality and adaptability to changing requirements. This process…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yihao Qin , Shangwen Wang , Yan Lei , Zhuo Zhang , Bo Lin , Xin Peng , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao