Experiments on slicing-based debugging aids
Papers presented at the first workshop on empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers
Debugging Parallel Programs with Instant Replay
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Identifying the semantic and textual differences between two versions of a program
PLDI '90 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1990 conference on Programming language design and implementation
PLDI '90 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1990 conference on Programming language design and implementation
The semantic approach to program slicing
PLDI '91 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1991 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Generalized algorithmic debugging and testing
PLDI '91 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1991 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Debugging with dynamic slicing and backtracking
Software—Practice & Experience
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Debugging program failure exhibited by voluminous data
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
RecPlay: a fully integrated practical record/replay system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Making slicing practical: the final mile
PASTE '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Evaluating explicitly context-sensitive program slicing
PASTE '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Failure and Fault Analysis for Software Debugging
COMPSAC '97 Proceedings of the 21st International Computer Software and Applications Conference
Automated bug isolation via program chipping
Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on Automated analysis-driven debugging
HDD: hierarchical delta debugging
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Debugging model-transformation failures using dynamic tainting
ECOOP'10 Proceedings of the 24th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Is text search an effective approach for fault localization: a practitioners perspective
Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity
A test-suite reduction approach to improving fault-localization effectiveness
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
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This paper introduces program chipping, a simple yet effectivetechnique to isolate bugs. This technique automatically removes orchips away parts of a program so that the part thatcontributes to some symptomatic output becomes more apparent to theuser. Program chipping is similar in spirit to traditional programslicing and debugging techniques, but chipping uses very simpletechniques based on the syntactic structure of the program. We havedeveloped a chipping tool for Java programs, called ChipperJ, andhave run it on a variety of small to large programs, including aJava compiler, looking for various symptoms. The results arepromising. The reduced program is generally about 20-35% of thesize of the original. ChipperJ takes less than an hour on largeprograms to perform this reduction; even if it took overnight, thatwould be reasonable if it saves the developer time. Copyright© 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.