Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behaviour of a software system. In the context of a s...
Ivo Augusto Bertoncello, Marcelo Oliveira Dias, Pa...
Advances in recent years have made it possible in some cases to locate a bug (the source of a failure) automatically. But debugging is also about correcting bugs. Can tools do thi...
Valentin Dallmeier, Andreas Zeller, Bertrand Meyer
In software product line engineering, feature composition generates software tailored to specific requirements from a common set of artifacts. Superimposition is a technique to me...
Sven Apel, Florian Janda, Salvador Trujillo, Chris...
When it is impractical to rigorously assess all parts of complex systems, test engineers use defect detectors to focus their limited resources. In this article, we define some pr...
Tim Menzies, Justin S. Di Stefano, Kareem Ammar, K...
Researchers have proposed a number of tools for automatic bug localization. Given a program and a description of the failure, such tools pinpoint a set of statements that are most...