Abstract
This paper presents an approach of bug localization using a frequency weighting function. In an existing approach, only binary information of execution count from test executions is used. Information of each program statement being executed and not executed by a particular test is used; indicated by 1 and 0 respectively. In our proposed approach, frequency execution count of each program statement executed by a respective test is used. We evaluate several well-known spectra metrics using our proposed approach and the existing approach (using binary information of execution count) on two test suites; Siemens Test Suite and Unix datasets. We show that the bug localization performance is improved by using our proposed approach. We conduct statistical test and show that the improved bug localization performance using our approach (using frequency execution count) is statistically significant than using the existing approach (using binary information of execution count).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2010 |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 218-227 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780769540856 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2010 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 19 Jul 2010 → 23 Jul 2020 |
Other
| Other | 34th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2010 |
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| Country/Territory | Korea, Republic of |
| City | Seoul |
| Period | 19/07/10 → 23/07/20 |
Keywords
- Frequency weighting function
- Program spectra
- Spectra metrics