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Software Fault Localization refers to the activity of finding code elements (e.g., statements) that are related to a software failure. The state-of-the-art fault localization techniques, however, produce coarse-grained results that can…

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TypeScript has rapidly become a popular language for modern web development, yet its effect on software faults remains poorly understood. This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of bugs in real-world TypeScript projects.…

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Nowadays, locating software components responsible for observed failures is one of the most expensive and error-prone tasks in the software development process. To improve the debugging process efficiency, some effort was already made to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Alexandre Perez

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…

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Debugging is a central yet complex activity in software engineering. Prior studies have documented debugging strategies and tool usage, but little theory explains how experienced developers reason about bugs in large, real-world codebases.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Haolin Li , Michael Coblenz

Precisely and automatically detection of faults in programs, is a software engineering dream. Every effort in this regard takes us one step closer to realizing it. Many efforts have been taken from the people of these areas on testing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Safeeullah Soomro , Zahid Hussain , Ayaz Keerio

In order to plan for failure recovery, the designers of cloud systems need to understand how their system can potentially fail. Unfortunately, analyzing the failure behavior of such systems can be very difficult and time-consuming, due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella , Nematollah Bidokhti

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

Bug report management is a costly software maintenance process comprised of several challenging tasks. Given the UI-driven nature of mobile apps, bugs typically manifest through the UI, hence the identification of buggy UI screens and UI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Antu Saha , Yang Song , Junayed Mahmud , Ying Zhou , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro

To remain useful for their users, software systems need to continuously enhance and extend their functionality. Nevertheless, in many object-oriented applications, features are not represented explicitly. The lack of modularization is known…

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We describe a system that simplifies the process of debugging programs produced by computer-aided parallelization tools. The system uses relative debugging techniques to compare serial and parallel executions in order to show where the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Robert Hood , Gabriele Jost

Recent findings from a user study suggest that IR-based bug localization techniques do not perform well if the bug report lacks rich structured information such as relevant program entity names. On the contrary, excessive structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Debugging is difficult. Recent studies show that automatic bug localization techniques have limited usefulness. One of the reasons is that programmers typically have to understand why the program fails before fixing it. In this work, we aim…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Jun Sun , Long H. Pham , Lyly Tran Thi , Jingyi Wang , Xin Peng

Providing timely and personalized guidance for students' programming assignments, offers significant practical value for helping students complete assignments and enhance their learning. In recent years, various automated Fault Localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Fang Liu , Tianze Wang , Li Zhang , Zheyu Yang , Jing Jiang , Zian Sun

Bug localization in object oriented program ha s always been an important issue in softeware engineering. In this paper, I propose a source level bug localization technique for object oriented embedded programs. My proposed technique,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Partha Pratim Ray

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.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Thu-Trang Nguyen , Kien-Tuan Ngo , Son Nguyen , Hieu Dinh Vo

Fixing software faults contributes significantly to the cost of software maintenance and evolution. Techniques for reducing these costs require datasets of software faults, as well as an understanding of the faults, for optimal testing and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Dylan Callaghan , Alexandra van der Spuy , Bernd Fischer

Symbolic Execution is a formal method that can be used to verify the behavior of computer programs and detect software vulnerabilities. Compared to other testing methods such as fuzzing, Symbolic Execution has the advantage of providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Christopher Scherb , Luc Bryan Heitz , Hermann Grieder , Olivier Mattmann

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have found numerous applications in various domains, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, facial recognition, and autonomous driving. However, DNN-based systems often suffer from reliability issues due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B Shah , Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Fault localization, the process of identifying the software components responsible for failures, is essential but often time-consuming. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled fault localization without extensive defect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Inseok Yeo , Duksan Ryu , Jongmoon Baik