A Study of Software Fault Localization Techniques
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Fault localization is the activity of identifying the exact locations of program faults. Automatic software fault localization techniques are used by programmers to find out the exact location of the fault in least amount of time. Therefore, there is a high demandfor automatic fault localization techniques that can guide programmers to thelocations of faults, with minimal human intervention. This demand has led to theproposal and development of various methods, each of which seeks to make thefault localization process more effective in its own unique and creative way. In thisarticle we provide an overview of several such methods and discuss some of thekey issues and concerns that are relevant to fault localization..
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تاریخ انتشار 2016