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Background: Compilers are fundamental to software development, translating high-level source code into executable software systems. Faults in compilers can have severe consequences and thus effective localization and resolution of compiler…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yibiao Yang , Qingyang Li , Maolin Sun , Jiangchang Wu , Yuming Zhou

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

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

This paper introduces DDMIN-LOC, a technique that combines Delta Debugging Minimization (DDMIN) with Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL). It can be applied to programs taking string inputs, even when only a single failure-inducing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Charaka Geethal Kapugama

Fault diagnosis plays an essential role in reducing the maintenance costs of rotating machinery manufacturing systems. In many real applications of fault detection and diagnosis, data tend to be imbalanced, meaning that the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Masoud Jalayer , Amin Kaboli , Carlotta Orsenigo , Carlo Vercellis

Fault diagnosis is a crucial area of research in industry. Industrial processes exhibit diverse operating conditions, where data often have non-Gaussian, multi-mode, and center-drift characteristics. Data-driven approaches are currently the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chen Li , Zeyi Liu , Limin Wang , Minyue Li , Xiao He

Localization of unknown faults in industrial systems is a difficult task for data-driven diagnosis methods. The classification performance of many machine learning methods relies on the quality of training data. Unknown faults, for example…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Daniel Jung

Debugging ML software (i.e., the detection, localization and fixing of faults) poses unique challenges compared to traditional software largely due to the probabilistic nature and heterogeneity of its development process. Various methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Haoye Tian , Bach Le , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Shane McIntosh

Context: Automated fault localisation aims to assist developers in the task of identifying the root cause of the fault by narrowing down the space of likely fault locations. Simulating variants of the faulty program called mutants, several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jinhan Kim , Gabin An , Robert Feldt , Shin Yoo

Software bugs are prevalent in modern software systems and notoriously hard to debug manually. Therefore, a large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging, including both automated fault localization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Yiling Lou , Ali Ghanbari , Xia Li , Lingming Zhang , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang

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

Quantum computers leverage the principles of quantum mechanics to execute operations. They require quantum programs that define operations on quantum bits (qubits), the fundamental units of computation. Unlike traditional software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yuta Ishimoto , Masanari Kondo , Naoyasu Ubayashi , Yasutaka Kamei , Ryota Katsube , Naoto Sato , Hideto Ogawa

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

Sensor technology developments provide a basis for effective fault diagnosis in manufacturing systems. However, the limited number of sensors due to physical constraints or undue costs hinders the accurate diagnosis in the actual process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jihoon Chung , Zhenyu Kong

Statistical fault localization (SFL) techniques use execution profiles and success/failure information from software executions, in conjunction with statistical inference, to automatically score program elements based on how likely they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Yigit Kucuk , Tim A. D. Henderson , Andy Podgurski

Ensuring code correctness remains a challenging problem even as large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable at code-related tasks. While LLM-based program repair systems can propose bug fixes using only a user's bug report,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Adam Stein , Arthur Wayne , Aaditya Naik , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

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

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 to identify faulty source code. It could be done on various granularities, e.g., classes, methods, and statements. Most of the automated fault localization (AFL) approaches are coarse-grained because it is challenging…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Leping Li , Hui Liu