Tipo
Artigos em Conferência
Tipo de Documento
Artigo Completo
Título
Diagnosing Software Faults Using Multiverse Analysis
Participantes na publicação
Prantik Chatterjee (Author)
Abhijit Chatterjee (Author)
Jose Campos (Author)
Dep. Informática
LASIGE
Rui Abreu (Author)
Subhajit Roy (Author)
Resumo
Spectrum-based Fault Localization (SFL) approaches aim to efficiently localize faulty components from examining program behavior. This is done by collecting the execution patterns of various combinations of components and the corresponding outcomes into a spectrum. Efficient fault localization depends heavily on the quality of the spectra. Previous approaches, including the current state-of-the-art Density- Diversity-Uniqueness (DDU) approach, attempt to generate “good” test-suites by improving certain structural properties of the spectra. In this work, we propose a different approach, Multiverse Analysis, that considers multiple hypothetical universes, each corresponding to a scenario where one of the components is assumed to be faulty, to generate a spectrum that attempts to reduce the expected worst-case wasted effort over all the universes. Our experiments show that the Multiverse Analysis not just improves the efficiency of fault localization but also achieves better coverage and generates smaller test-suites over DDU, the current state-of-the-art technique. On average, our approach reduces the developer effort over DDU by over 16% for more than 92% of the instances. Further, the improvements over DDU are indeed statistically significant on the paired Wilcoxon Signed-rank test.
Data de Publicação
2020-07
Instituição
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Evento
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Identificadores da Publicação
Local
Yokohama, Japan
Editora
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization
Identificadores do Documento
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/226
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/226
Identificadores de Qualidade
CORE A* (2021) -