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Improving Efficiency and Accuracy of Formula-Based Debugging

Authors : Wei Jin, Alessandro Orso

Published in: Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Formula-based debugging techniques are extremely appealing, as they provide a principled way to identify potentially faulty statements together with information that can help fix such statements. These approaches are however computationally expensive, which limits their practical applicability. Moreover, they tend to focus on failing test cases and ignore the information provided by passing tests. To mitigate these issues, we propose on-demand formula computation (OFC) and clause weighting (CW). OFC improves the overall efficiency of formula-based debugging by exploring all and only the parts of a program that are relevant to a failure. CW improves the accuracy of formula-based debugging by leveraging statistical fault-localization information that accounts for passing tests. Although OFC and CW are only a first step towards making formula-based debugging more applicable, our empirical results show that they are effective and improve the state of the art.

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Metadata
Title
Improving Efficiency and Accuracy of Formula-Based Debugging
Authors
Wei Jin
Alessandro Orso
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-49051-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-49052-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49052-6_7

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