Residual test coverage monitoring
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why?
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Extracting usability information from user interface events
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Bug isolation via remote program sampling
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Locating causes of program failures
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Scalable statistical bug isolation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Profiling Deployed Software: Assessing Strategies and Testing Opportunities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
SOBER: statistical model-based bug localization
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Locating faults through automated predicate switching
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
An Evaluation of Similarity Coefficients for Software Fault Localization
PRDC '06 Proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing
A Technique for Enabling and Supporting Debugging of Field Failures
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Fault localization using value replacement
ISSTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
An observation-based model for fault localization
WODA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on dynamic analysis: held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2008)
HOLMES: Effective statistical debugging via efficient path profiling
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Lightweight fault-localization using multiple coverage types
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Penumbra: automatically identifying failure-relevant inputs using dynamic tainting
Proceedings of the eighteenth international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Capturing propagation of infected program states
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
A family of code coverage-based heuristics for effective fault localization
Journal of Systems and Software
Execution synthesis: a technique for automated software debugging
Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Computer systems
Directed test generation for effective fault localization
Proceedings of the 19th international symposium on Software testing and analysis
KLEE: unassisted and automatic generation of high-coverage tests for complex systems programs
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Cause clue clauses: error localization using maximum satisfiability
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
A model for spectra-based software diagnosis
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Are automated debugging techniques actually helping programmers?
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Selecting peers for execution comparison
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Mitigating the confounding effects of program dependences for effective fault localization
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Discovery of minimal unsatisfiable subsets of constraints using hitting set dualization
PADL'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages
Fault Localization for Dynamic Web Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Isolating failure causes through test case generation
Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
BugRedux: reproducing field failures for in-house debugging
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
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Reproducing and debugging field failures--failures that occur on user machines after release--are challenging tasks for developers. To help the first task, in previous work we have proposed BugRedux, a technique for reproducing, in-house, failures observed in the field. Although BugRedux can help developers reproduce field failures, it does not provide any specific support for debugging such failures. To address this limitation, in this paper we present F3, a novel technique that builds on BugRedux and extends it with support for fault localization. Specifically, in F3 we extend our previous technique in two main ways: first, we modify BugRedux so that it generates multiple failing and passing executions "similar" to the observed field failure; second, we add to BugRedux debugging capabilities by combining it with a customized fault-localization technique. The results of our empirical evaluation, performed on a set of real-world programs and field failures, are promising: for all the failures considered, F3 was able to (1) synthesize passing and failing executions and (2) successfully use the synthesized executions to perform fault localization and, ultimately, help debugging.