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Mon 14 - Fri 18 November 2022 Singapore
Tue 15 Nov 2022 12:00 - 12:15 at SRC GLR - JF Debugging & Localization Chair(s): Rui Abreu

Statistical fault localization is an easily deployed technique for quickly determining candidates for faulty code locations. If a human programmer has to search the fault beyond the top candidate locations, though, more traditional techniques of following dependencies along dynamic slices may be better suited. In a large study of 457 bugs (369 single faults and 88 multiple faults) in 46 open source C programs, we compare the effectiveness of statistical fault localization against dynamic slicing. For single faults, we find that dynamic slicing was eight percentage points more effective than the best performing statistical debugging formula; for 66% of the bugs, dynamic slicing finds the fault earlier than the best performing statistical debugging formula. In our evaluation, dynamic slicing is more effective for programs with single fault, but statistical debugging performs better on multiple faults. Best results, however, are obtained by a hybrid approach: If programmers first examine at most the top five most suspicious locations from statistical debugging, and then switch to dynamic slices, on average, they will need to examine 15% (30 lines) of the code. These findings hold for 18 most effective statistical debugging formulas and our results are independent of the number of faults (i.e. single or multiple faults) and error type (i.e. artificial or real errors).

Tue 15 Nov

Displayed time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change

10:45 - 12:15
JF Debugging & LocalizationJournal First at SRC GLR
Chair(s): Rui Abreu Meta Platforms
10:45
15m
Talk
Context-Aware Code Change Embedding for Better Patch Correctness Assessment
Journal First
Bo Lin National University of Defense Technology, Shangwen Wang National University of Defense Technology, Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology
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11:00
15m
Talk
BiRD: Race Detection in Software Binaries under Relaxed Memory Models
Journal First
Ridhi Jain Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Rahul Purandare IIIT-Delhi, Subodh Sharma IIT Delhi
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11:15
15m
Talk
ASTRAEA: Grammar-based Fairness Testing
Journal First
Ezekiel Soremekun SnT, University of Luxembourg, Sakshi Udeshi Singapore University of Technology and Design, Sudipta Chattopadhyay Singapore University of Technology and Design
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11:30
15m
Talk
Exploring Performance Assurance Practices and Challenges in Agile Software Development: An Ethnographic Study
Journal First
Luca Traini University of L'Aquila
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11:45
15m
Talk
Studying logging practice in test code
Journal First
Haonan Zhang Concordia University, Yiming Tang Concordia University, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montréal, Heng Li Polytechnique Montréal, Weiyi Shang Concordia University
12:00
15m
Talk
Locating Faults with Program Slicing: An Empirical Analysis
Journal First
Ezekiel Soremekun SnT, University of Luxembourg, Lukas Kirschner Saarland University, Marcel Böhme MPI-SP, Germany and Monash University, Australia, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
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