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Simplifying failure-inducing input

by: Ralf Hildebrandt, Andreas Zeller
SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, Vol. 25, No. 5. (August 2000), pp. 135-145, doi:10.1145/347636.348938  Key: citeulike:11919250

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Given some test case, a program fails. Which part of the test case is responsible for the particular failure? We show how our delta debugging algorithm generalizes and simplifies some failing input to a minimal test case that produces the failure.In a case study, the Mozilla web browser crashed after 95 user actions. Our prototype implementation automatically simplified the input to 3 relevant user actions. Likewise, it simplified 896~lines of HTML to the single line that caused the failure. The case study required 139 automated test runs, or 35 minutes on a 500 MHz PC.


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