Visualization of test information to assist fault localization

One of the most expensive and time-consuming components of the debugging process is locating the errors or faults. To locate faults, developers must identify statements involved in failures and select suspicious statements that might contain faults. This paper presents a new technique that uses visu...

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Vydané v:Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering s. 467 - 477
Hlavní autori: Jones, James A., Harrold, Mary Jean, Stasko, John
Médium: Konferenčný príspevok.. Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: New York, NY, USA ACM 01.01.2002
Edícia:ACM Conferences
Predmet:
Applied sciences
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation types and techniques > Visual analytics
Exact sciences and technology
Software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Process validation > Traceability
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software verification and validation > Software defect analysis > Software testing and debugging
Software engineering
Software development
Data visualization
Debugging
Program proof
Program test
Program analysis
Program testing
Software engineering
ISBN:158113472X, 9781581134728
ISSN:0270-5257
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Shrnutí:One of the most expensive and time-consuming components of the debugging process is locating the errors or faults. To locate faults, developers must identify statements involved in failures and select suspicious statements that might contain faults. This paper presents a new technique that uses visualization to assist with these tasks. The technique uses color to visually map the participation of each program statement in the outcome of the execution of the program with a test suite, consisting of both passed and failed test cases. Based on this visual mapping, a user can inspect the statements in the program, identify statements involved in failures, and locate potentially faulty statements. The paper also describes a prototype tool that implements our technique along with a set of empirical studies that use the tool for evaluation of the technique. The empirical studies show that, for the subject we studied, the technique can be effective in helping a user locate faults in a program.
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ISBN:158113472X
9781581134728
ISSN:0270-5257
DOI:10.1145/581339.581397