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An efficient relevant slicing method for debugging
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
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Experimental Evaluation of Program Slicing for Fault Localization
Empirical Software Engineering
Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Internet Services
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Locating causes of program failures
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Locating faulty code using failure-inducing chops
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Locating faults through automated predicate switching
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Effective program debugging based on execution slices and inter-block data dependency
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Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of 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 study of effectiveness of dynamic slicing in locating real faults
Empirical Software Engineering
Towards locating execution omission errors
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
Effective Fault Localization using Code Coverage
COMPSAC '07 Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
On the Accuracy of Spectrum-based Fault Localization
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Fault localization using value replacement
ISSTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Automating Software FMEA via Formal Analysis of Dependence Relations
COMPSAC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference
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
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
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
Fault localization through evaluation sequences
Journal of Systems and Software
Fault localization based on information flow coverage
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
A Grouping-Based Strategy to Improve the Effectiveness of Fault Localization Techniques
QSIC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Quality Software
The Probabilistic Program Dependence Graph and Its Application to Fault Diagnosis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Locating faults using multiple spectra-specific models
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A model for spectra-based software diagnosis
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
On the influence of multiple faults on coverage-based fault localization
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Minimizing reproduction of software failures
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Software fault localization based on program slicing spectrum
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Effective Statistical Fault Localization Using Program Slices
COMPSAC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference
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Recent techniques for fault localization statistically analyze coverage information of a set of test runs to measure the correlations between program entities and program failures. However, coverage information cannot identify those program entities whose execution affects the output and therefore weakens the aforementioned correlations. This paper proposes a slice-based statistical fault localization approach to address this problem. Our approach utilizes program slices of a set of test runs to capture the influence of a program entity's execution on the output, and uses statistical analysis to measure the suspiciousness of each program entity being faulty. In addition, this paper presents a new slicing approach called approximate dynamic backward slice to balance the size and accuracy of a slice, and applies this slice to our statistical approach. We use two standard benchmarks and three real-life UNIX utility programs as our subjects, and compare our approach with a sufficient number of fault localization techniques. The experimental results show that our approach can significantly improve the effectiveness of fault localization.