Fault Localization Using Visualization of Test Information

  • Authors:
  • James A. Jones

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Attempts to reduce the number of delivered faults in softwareare estimated to consume 50% to 80% of the developmentand maintenance effort [3]. Among the tasks requiredto reduce the number of delivered faults, debugging is oneof the most time-consuming [2, 12], and locating the errorsis the most dif.cult component of this debugging task (e.g.,[13]). Clearly, techniques that can reduce the time requiredto locate faults can have a signi.cant impact on the cost andquality of software development and maintenance.