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 …

Search Based Software Testing (SBST) formulates testing as an optimisation problem, which
can be attacked using computational search techniques from the field of Search Based …

Fault localization aims to support the debugging activities of human developers by
highlighting the program elements that are suspected to be responsible for the observed …

Software debugging is tedious and time consuming. To reduce the manual effort needed for
debugging, researchers have proposed a considerable number of techniques to automate …

This chapter describes traditional and intuitive fault localization techniques, including
program logging, assertions, breakpoints, and profiling. Many advanced fault localization …

Due to the complexity of software systems, bugs are inevitable. Software debugging is
tedious and time consuming. To help developers perform this crucial task, a number of …

Programmers maintain and evolve their software in a variety of programming languages to
take advantage of various control/data abstractions and legacy libraries. The programming …

During software debugging, a significant amount of effort is required for programmers to
identify the root cause of manifested failures. Various spectrum-based fault localization …

Bug localization is challenging and time-consuming. Given a bug report, a developer may
spend tremendous time comprehending the bug description together with code in order to …

Several fault predictors were proposed in the context of Spectrum-based Fault Localization
approaches to rank software components in order of suspiciousness of being the root-cause …