Virtually any software running on a computer has been processed by a compiler or a
compiler-like tool. Because compilers are such a crucial piece of infrastructure for building …

Software testing is a crucial component of software engineering that aims to confirm the
intended functionality of software modules and minimize the likelihood of future failures. This …

Debugging software failures is still a painful, time consuming, and expensive process. For
instance, recent studies showed that debugging activities often account for about 50% of the …

We revisit the performance of template-based APR to build comprehensive knowledge
about the effectiveness of fix patterns, and to highlight the importance of complementary …

The complexity and dynamism of microservice systems pose unique challenges to a variety
of software engineering tasks such as fault analysis and debugging. In spite of the …

Most fault localization techniques take as input a faulty program, and produce as output a
ranked list of suspicious code locations at which the program may be defective. When …

Software fault localization, the act of identifying the locations of faults in a program, is widely
recognized to be one of the most tedious, time consuming, and expensive-yet equally critical …

Modern society is increasingly moving toward complex and distributed computing systems.
The increase in scale and complexity of these systems challenges O&M teams that perform …

Coverage-based fault localization has been extensively studied in the literature due to its
effectiveness and lightweightness for real-world systems. However, existing techniques …

Fault localization methods seek to identify faulty program statements based on the
information provided by the failing and passing test executions. Spectrum‐based methods …