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Program Spectra Analysis with Theory of Evidence
Author
Source
Advances in Software Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-02-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper presents an approach to automatically analyzing program spectra, an execution profile of program testing results for fault localization.
Using a mathematical theory of evidence for uncertainty reasoning, the proposed approach estimates the likelihood of faulty locations based on evidence from program spectra.
Our approach is theoretically grounded and can be computed online.
Therefore, we can predict fault locations immediately after each test execution is completed.
We evaluate the approach by comparing its performance with the top three performing fault localizers using a benchmark set of real-world programs.
The results show that our approach is at least as effective as others with an average effectiveness (the reduction of the amount of code examined to locate a fault) of 85.6% over 119 versions of the programs.
We also study the quantity and quality impacts of program spectra on our approach where the quality refers to the spectra support in identifying that a certain unit is faulty.
The results show that the effectiveness of our approach slightly improves with a larger number of failed runs but not with a larger number of passed runs.
Program spectra with support quality increases from 1% to 100% improves the approach's effectiveness by 3.29%.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hewett, Rattikorn. 2012. Program Spectra Analysis with Theory of Evidence. Advances in Software Engineering،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-12.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hewett, Rattikorn. Program Spectra Analysis with Theory of Evidence. Advances in Software Engineering No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-487644
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hewett, Rattikorn. Program Spectra Analysis with Theory of Evidence. Advances in Software Engineering. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-487644
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-487644