An empirical study of the effects of test-suite reduction on fault localization Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3177490, abstract = {Fault-localization techniques that utilize information about all test cases in a test suite have been presented. These techniques use various approaches to identify the likely faulty part(s) of a program, based on information about the execution of the program with the test suite. Researchers have begun to investigate the impact that the composition of the test suite has on the effectiveness of these fault-localization techniques. In this paper, we present the first experiment on one aspect of test-suite composition--test-suite reduction. Our experiment studies the impact of the test-suite reduction on the effectiveness of fault-localization techniques. In our experiment, we apply 10 test-suite reduction strategies to test suites for eight subject programs. We then measure the differences between the effectiveness of four existing fault-localization techniques on the unreduced and reduced test suites. We also measure the reduction in test-suite size of the 10 test-suite reduction strategies. Our experiment shows that fault-localization effectiveness varies depending on the test-suite reduction strategy used, and it demonstrates the trade-offs between test-suite reduction and fault-localization effectiveness.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Yu, Yanbing and Jones, James A. and Harrold, Mary J.}, booktitle = {ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering}, citeulike-article-id = {3177490}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1368088.1368116}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1368088.1368116}, doi = {10.1145/1368088.1368116}, isbn = {978-1-60558-079-1}, keywords = {debugging, dynamic\_slicing}, location = {Leipzig, Germany}, pages = {201--210}, posted-at = {2008-09-01 05:58:35}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {An empirical study of the effects of test-suite reduction on fault localization}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1368088.1368116}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3177490 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3177490 N2 - Fault-localization techniques that utilize information about all test cases in a test suite have been presented. These techniques use various approaches to identify the likely faulty part(s) of a program, based on information about the execution of the program with the test suite. Researchers have begun to investigate the impact that the composition of the test suite has on the effectiveness of these fault-localization techniques. In this paper, we present the first experiment on one aspect of test-suite composition--test-suite reduction. Our experiment studies the impact of the test-suite reduction on the effectiveness of fault-localization techniques. In our experiment, we apply 10 test-suite reduction strategies to test suites for eight subject programs. We then measure the differences between the effectiveness of four existing fault-localization techniques on the unreduced and reduced test suites. We also measure the reduction in test-suite size of the 10 test-suite reduction strategies. Our experiment shows that fault-localization effectiveness varies depending on the test-suite reduction strategy used, and it demonstrates the trade-offs between test-suite reduction and fault-localization effectiveness. CY - Leipzig, Germany SN - 978-1-60558-079-1 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 210 TI - An empirical study of the effects of test-suite reduction on fault localization PB - ACM T2 - ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering SP - 201 KW - debugging KW - dynamic_slicing AU - Yu, Yanbing AU - Jones, James AU - Harrold, Mary PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1368088.1368116 ER -