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标题：Locating Software Faults Based on Control Flow and Data Dependence
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作者：Hu, Chenghui ; Ding, Zuohua
期刊名称：Journal of Computers
印刷版ISSN：1796-203X
出版年度：2014
卷号：9
期号：12
页码：2797-2803
DOI：10.4304/jcp.9.12.2797-2803
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Debugging software is a difficult and time-consuming work. Fault localization techniques are becoming extremely important. Coverage Based Fault Localization (CBFL) is very commonly used in fault location technique. Tarantula is a typical one. It uses the coverage statistics of failed execution paths and passed execution paths to calculate the suspiciousness in the software. However, since this technique ignores the data dependency, it is hard to find the bugs which are not in the suspicious code area but have data dependence with it. In order to improve the efficiency of fault locating, we combine control flow coverage information and data dependence from program slicing. We validate our approach experimentally using Siemens benchmark programs. The experimental results show that our approach is more effective than Tarantula.
关键词：Fault location;Control flow;Program slicing;Data dependence