Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs automatically and plays a crucial
role in software development and maintenance. With the recent advances in deep learning …

In this study, an attempt is made to achieve optimal thermal stress distribution in symmetric
composite plates with non-circular holes under uniform heat flux by using metaheuristic …

Mutation-based fault localization (MBFL) is a popular method based on mutation testing.
MBFL applies a variety of operators to generate mutants and calculates the statement's …

Mutation-based fault localization has shown promising accuracy in localizing faults due to its
finer analysis granularity. However, the effectiveness is limited when dealing with diverse …

Abstract In a Software Product Line (SPL) system, variability bugs can cause failures in
certain products (buggy products), not in the others. In practice, variability bugs are not …

Upon receiving a new issue report, practitioners start by investigating the defect type, the
potential fixing effort needed to resolve the defect and the change impact. Moreover, issue …

Abstract Context: Fault Localization (FL) is an important and tedious phase of software
debugging. Among various FL techniques, Mutation-Based Fault Localization (MBFL) …

Verification of hardware design code is crucial for the quality assurance of hardware
products. Being an indispensable part of verification, localizing bugs in the hardware design …

Software fault localization is one of the most expensive, tedious, and time-consuming
activities in program debugging. This activity becomes even much more challenging in …

Existing fault localization techniques typically analyze static information and run-time profiles
of faulty software programs, and subsequently calculate suspiciousness values for each …