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An Empirical Study of Fault Localization Families and Their Combinations by Zou, Daming, Liang, Jingjing, Xiong, Yingfei, Ernst, Michael D., Zhang, Lu

“…The performance of fault localization techniques is critical to their adoption in practice. This paper reports on an empirical study of a wide range of fault…”
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A Survey on Software Fault Localization by Wong, W. Eric, Ruizhi Gao, Yihao Li, Abreu, Rui, Wotawa, Franz

“…Software fault localization, the act of identifying the locations of faults in a program, is widely recognized to be one of the most tedious, time consuming,…”
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Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code by Chen, Zimin, Kommrusch, Steve, Monperrus, Martin

“…In this paper, we address the problem of automatic repair of software vulnerabilities with deep learning. The major problem with data-driven vulnerability…”
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Multiple fault localization of software programs: A systematic literature review by Zakari, Abubakar, Lee, Sai Peck, Abreu, Rui, Ahmed, Babiker Hussien, Rasheed, Rasheed Abubakar

“…Multiple fault localization (MFL) is the act of identifying the locations of multiple faults (more than one fault) in a faulty software program. This is known…”
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Bugs4Q: A benchmark of existing bugs to enable controlled testing and debugging studies for quantum programs by Zhao, Pengzhan, Miao, Zhongtao, Lan, Shuhan, Zhao, Jianjun

“…Realistic benchmarks of reproducible bugs and fixes are vital to good experimental evaluation of debugging and testing approaches. However, there is no…”
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Astraea: Grammar-Based Fairness Testing by Soremekun, Ezekiel, Udeshi, Sakshi, Chattopadhyay, Sudipta

“…Software often produces biased outputs. In particular, machine learning (ML) based software is known to produce erroneous predictions when processing…”
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HYPNOS: Interactive Data Lineage Tracing for Data Transformation Scripts by Cai, Xiwen, Ge, Xiaodong, Xiong, Kai, Ye, Shuainan, Weng, Di, Xu, Ke, Wei, Datong, Long, Jiang, Wu, Yingcai

“…In a formal data analysis workflow, data validation is a necessary step that helps data analysts verify the quality of the data and ensure the reliability of…”
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Visualization Method for Data Structure Evolution in Program Debugging by SU Qing, CHEN Jiancheng, GU Guosheng, LIU Dongning, HUANG Jianfeng

“…Data structure carries important information regarding program execution in complicated and abstract evolution processes. To address the difficulty encountered…”
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A Flipped Systematic Debugging Approach to Enhance Elementary Students’ Program Debugging Performance and Optimize Cognitive Load by Gao, Xuemin, Hew, Khe Foon

“…Reintroducing computer science (CS) education in K–12 schools to promote computational thinking (CT) has attracted significant attention among scholars and…”
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Software defect prediction via LSTM by Deng, Jiehan, Lu, Lu, Qiu, Shaojian

“…Software quality plays an important role in the software lifecycle. Traditional software defect prediction approaches mainly focused on using hand-crafted…”
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Hierarchically Localizing Software Faults Using DNN by Dutta, Arpita, Manral, Richa, Mitra, Pabitra, Mall, Rajib

“…In this article, we propose a hierarchical fault localization technique using a deep neural network (DNN). First, we prioritize the functions of a program…”
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A family of code coverage-based heuristics for effective fault localization by Eric Wong, W., Debroy, Vidroha, Choi, Byoungju

“…Locating faults in a program can be very time-consuming and arduous, and therefore, there is an increased demand for automated techniques that can assist in…”
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Sorald: Automatic Patch Suggestions for SonarQube Static Analysis Violations by Etemadi, Khashayar, Harrand, Nicolas, Larsen, Simon, Adzemovic, Haris, Phu, Henry Luong, Verma, Ashutosh, Madeiral, Fernanda, Wikstrom, Douglas, Monperrus, Martin

“…Previous work has shown that early resolution of issues detected by static code analyzers can prevent major costs later on. However, developers often ignore…”
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TraceWalker: Synthesizing Interactive Debugging Progresses via Dataflow and Control-flow Inference by Pei, Yunrui, Wong, Yuk Kwan, Zhang, Chenyang, Wang, Hongshu, Zhang, Wenjie, Lin, Yun

“…Software fault localization is widely known to be costly, which motivates researchers to develop automated root cause analysis techniques. While many existing…”
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How test suites impact fault localisation starting from the size by Lei, Yan, Sun, Chengnian, Mao, Xiaoguang, Su, Zhendong

“…Although a test suite is indispensable for conducting effective fault localisation, not much work has been done to study how the test suite impacts fault…”
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Improving Fault-Localization Accuracy by Referencing Debugging History to Alleviate Structure Bias in Code Suspiciousness by Zhang, Long, Li, Zijie, Feng, Yang, Zhang, Zhenyu, Chan, Wing Kwong, Zhang, Jian, Zhou, Yuming

“…Spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) techniques can automatically localize software faults. They employ the program spectrum, such as code coverage profile…”
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Automation of Debugging Parallel Programs in the DVM System by Bakhtin, V. A.

“…Debugging parallel programs is a labor-intensive and nontrivial task. Parallel algorithms are usually significantly more complex than their sequential…”
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Software multi-fault localization via Chameleon clustering in parallel by Heling Cao, Yonghe Chu, Chenyang Zhao, Miaolei Deng

“…Fault localization have proven to be useful in various software during the process of software testing and debugging. The presence of multiple faults…”
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Bugs4Q: A Benchmark of Real Bugs for Quantum Programs by Zhao, Pengzhan, Zhao, Jianjun, Miao, Zhongtao, Lan, Shuhan

“…Realistic benchmarks of reproducible bugs and fixes are vital to good experimental evaluation of debugging and testing approaches. However, there is no…”
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CRMF: A fault localization approach based on class reduction and method call frequency by Liu, Hengyuan, Li, Zheng, Wang, Haifeng, Liu, Yong, Chen, Xiang

“…Identifying the location of faults in real‐world programs is one of the costly processes during software debugging. To reduce the debugging effort, various…”
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