Bug Localization in Test-Driven Development
Joint Authors
Russo, Stefano
Ficco, Massimo
Pietrantuono, Roberto
Source
Advances in Software Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-18, 18 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-06-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Software development teams that use agile methodologies are increasingly adopting the test-driven development practice (TDD).
TDD allows to produce software by iterative and incremental work cycle, and with a strict control over the process, favouring an early detection of bugs.
However, when applied to large and complex systems, TDD benefits are not so obvious; manually locating and fixing bugs introduced during the iterative development steps is a nontrivial task.
In such systems, the propagation chains following the bugs activation can be unacceptably long and intricate, and the size of the code to be analyzed is often too large.
In this paper, a bug localization technique specifically tailored to TDD is presented.
The technique is embedded in the TDD cycle, and it aims to improve developers' ability to locate bugs as soon as possible.
It is implemented in a tool and experimentally evaluated on newly developed Java programs.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ficco, Massimo& Pietrantuono, Roberto& Russo, Stefano. 2011. Bug Localization in Test-Driven Development. Advances in Software Engineering،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-18.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ficco, Massimo…[et al.]. Bug Localization in Test-Driven Development. Advances in Software Engineering No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-18.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Ficco, Massimo& Pietrantuono, Roberto& Russo, Stefano. Bug Localization in Test-Driven Development. Advances in Software Engineering. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-18.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-475993