Shuo Song
ABSTRACT
Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL) techniques calculate risk values to predict buggy units in a program,but they may cause heavy manual work when the calculated risk values are not reasonable on some application scenarios. In this paper, presents a preliminary study to estimate the effectiveness of SBFL before manual code walk through, so that we can decide whether to adopt SBFL for a given application.
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Index Terms
- Estimating the effectiveness of spectrum-based fault localization
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