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标题：Using Mutation in Fault Localization
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作者：Chenglong Sun ; Tian Huang
期刊名称：Computer Science & Information Technology
电子版ISSN：2231-5403
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：6
页码：59-66
DOI：10.5121/csit.2016.60605
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Fault localization is time-consuming and difficult, which makes it the bottleneck of thedebugging progress. To help facilitate this task, there exist many fault localization techniquesthat help narrow down the region of the suspicious code in a program. Better accuracy in faultlocalization is achieved from heavy computation cost. Fault localization techniques that caneffectively locate faults also manifest slow response rate. In this paper, we promote the use ofpre-computing to distribute the time-intensive computations to the idle period of coding phase,in order to speed up such techniques and achieve both low-cost and high accuracy. We raise theresearch problems of finding suitable techniques that can be pre-computed and adapt it to thepre-computing paradigm in a continuous integration environment. Further, we use an existingfault localization technique to demonstrate our research exploration, and shows visions andchallenges of the related methodologies.
关键词：Software testing; fault localization; continuous integration; mutation testing