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The Effects of Soft Assertion on Spectrum-Based Fault Localization

Authors : Kouhei Mihara, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto

Published in: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

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Abstract

This paper investigates the negative effects of soft assertion on the accuracy of Spectrum-based Fault Localization (SBFL). Soft assertion is a kind of test assertion which continues test case execution even after an assertion failure occurs. In general, the execution path becomes longer if the test case fails by a soft assertion. Hence, soft assertion will decrease the accuracy of SBFL which leverages the execution path of failed tests. In this study, we call the change of execution path due to soft assertion as path pollution. Our experimental results show that soft assertion actually reduces the accuracy of SBFL in 35% of faults.

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The total sum of the individual usage rates is 19.4%. However, since some projects use multiple libraries, the percentage of unique projects using soft assertion is 13.2%.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Effects of Soft Assertion on Spectrum-Based Fault Localization
Authors
Kouhei Mihara
Shinsuke Matsumoto
Shinji Kusumoto
Copyright Year
2024
Book
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-49265-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-49266-2

Copyright Year: 2024

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49266-2_26

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