Fault Localization Using Function Call Sequences

Fault localization through evaluation sequences

Predicate-based statistical fault-localization techniques find fault-relevant predicates in a program by contrasting the statistics of the evaluation results of individual predicates between failed runs and successful runs. While short-circuit evaluations may occur in program executions, treating predicates as atomic units ignores this fact, masking out various types of useful statistics on dyn...

Fault Localization through Evaluation Sequences I , II

Predicate-based statistical fault-localization techniques find fault-relevant predicates in a program by contrasting the statistics of the evaluation results of individual predicates between failed runs and successful runs. While shortcircuit evaluations may occur in program executions, treating predicates as atomic units ignores this fact, masking out various types of useful statistics on dyna...

Using Mutation in Fault Localization

Fault localization is time-consuming and difficult, which makes it the bottleneck of the debugging progress. To help facilitate this task, there exist many fault localization techniques that help narrow down the region of the suspicious code in a program. Better accuracy in fault localization is achieved from heavy computation cost. Fault localization techniques that can effectively locate faul...

Fault Localization Using Textual Similarities

Maintenance is a dominant component of software cost, and localizing reported defects so that they can be fixed is a significant component of maintenance. The size and complexity of contemporary systems makes such fault localization difficult, however. In addition, defect reports often contain incomplete information provided by users who may be unfamiliar with the code base. We propose a lightw...

Malware Characterization Using Windows API Call Sequences