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Fault localization is a practical research topic that helps developers identify code locations that might cause bugs in a program. Most existing fault localization techniques are designed for imperative programs (e.g., C and Java) and rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Guolong Zheng , ThanhVu Nguyen , Simón Gutiérrez Brida , Germán Regis , Marcelo F. Frias , Nazareno Aguirre , Hamid Bagheri

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

Fault Localization (FL) aims to identify root causes of program failures. FL typically targets failures observed from test executions, and as such, often involves dynamic analyses to improve accuracy, such as coverage profiling or mutation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sungmin Kang , Sumi Yun , Jingun Hong , Shin Yoo , Gabin An

Novice programmers often face challenges in fault localization due to their limited experience and understanding of programming syntax and logic. Traditional methods like Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) and Mutation-Based Fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hexiang Xu , Hengyuan Liu , Yonghao Wu , Xiaolan Kang , Xiang Chen , Yong Liu

Software testing helps developers to identify bugs. However, awareness of bugs is only the first step. Finding and correcting the faulty program components is equally hard and essential for high-quality software. Fault localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Hannes Thaller , Lukas Linsbauer , Alexander Egyed , Stefan Fischer

This paper introduces the notion of Constrained Locating Arrays (CLAs), mathematical objects which can be used for fault localization in software testing. CLAs extend ordinary locating arrays to make them applicable to testing of systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Hao Jin , Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya

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…

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promising performance on various programming tasks, including Automatic Program Repair (APR). However, most approaches to LLM-based APR are limited to the static analysis of the programs, while disregarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Mirazul Haque , Petr Babkin , Farima Farmahinifarahani , Manuela Veloso

The advanced complex electronic systems increasingly demand safer and more secure hardware parts. Correspondingly, fault injection became a major verification milestone for both safety- and security-critical applications. However, fault…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Ahmet Cagri Bagbaba , Maksim Jenihhin , Raimund Ubar , Christian Sauer

We propose a symbolic execution method for analyzing the safety of software under fault attacks both accurately and efficiently. Fault attacks leverage physically injected hardware faults in an embedded system to break the safety of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yuzhou Fang , Chenyu Zhou , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

One of the most significant challenges in the field of software code auditing is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. Every year, more and more software flaws are discovered, either internally in proprietary code or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Juan Rodriguez Cardenas , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Maintenance is a dominant component of software cost, and localizing reported defects is a significant component of maintenance. We propose a scalable approach that leverages the natural language present in both defect reports and source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Zachary P. Fry , Westley Weimer

Automated test generators, such as search based software testing (SBST) techniques, replace the tedious and expensive task of manually writing test cases. SBST techniques are effective at generating tests with high code coverage. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Anjana Perera

Failure region, where failure-causing inputs reside, has provided many insights to enhance testing effectiveness of many testing methods. Failure region may also provide some important information to support other processes such as software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Rubing Huang , Weifeng Sun , Tsong Yueh Chen , Sebastian Ng , Jinfu Chen

Soft error of exascale application is a challenge problem in modern HPC. In order to quantify an application's resilience and vulnerability, the application-level fault injection method is widely adopted by HPC users. However, it is not…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Kai Wu , Qiang Guan , Nathan DeBardeleben , Dong Li

Sequence feature embedding is a challenging task due to the unstructuredness of sequence, i.e., arbitrary strings of arbitrary length. Existing methods are efficient in extracting short-term dependencies but typically suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-06 Chitta Ranjan , Samaneh Ebrahimi , Kamran Paynabar

Data driven transmission line fault location methods have the potential to more accurately locate faults by extracting fault information from available data. However, most of the data driven fault location methods in the literature are not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Yiqi Xing , Yu Liu , Dayou Lu , Xinchen Zou , Xuming He

Emerging real-time applications have driven the transition to multicore embedded systems, where tasks must share resources due to functional demands and limited availability. These resources, whether local or global, are protected within…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Nan Chen , Xiaotian Dai , Tong Cheng , Alan Burns , Iain Bate , Shuai Zhao

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

Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) is a core library in scientific computing and machine learning. This paper presents FT-BLAS, a new implementation of BLAS routines that not only tolerates soft errors on the fly, but also provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yujia Zhai , Elisabeth Giem , Quan Fan , Kai Zhao , Jinyang Liu , Zizhong Chen