Semantic Fault Localization and Suspiciousness Ranking

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2019
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Christakis, Maria
Heizmann, Matthias
Mansur, Muhammad Numair
Wüstholz, Valentin
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems : 25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019 / Vojnar, Tomáš; Zhang, Lijun (ed.). - Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2019. - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 11427). - pp. 226-243. - ISSN 0302-9743. - eISSN 1611-3349. - ISBN 978-3-030-17461-3
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Static program analyzers are increasingly effective in checking correctness properties of programs and reporting any errors found, often in the form of error traces. However, developers still spend a significant amount of time on debugging. This involves processing long error traces in an effort to localize a bug to a relatively small part of the program and to identify its cause. In this paper, we present a technique for automated fault localization that, given a program and an error trace, efficiently narrows down the cause of the error to a few statements. These statements are then ranked in terms of their suspiciousness. Our technique relies only on the semantics of the given program and does not require any test cases or user guidance. In experiments on a set of C benchmarks, we show that our technique is effective in quickly isolating the cause of error while out-performing other state-of-the-art fault-localization techniques.
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TACAS 2019: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Apr 6, 2019 - Apr 11, 2019, Prag
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ISO 690CHRISTAKIS, Maria, Matthias HEIZMANN, Muhammad Numair MANSUR, Christian SCHILLING, Valentin WÜSTHOLZ, 2019. Semantic Fault Localization and Suspiciousness Ranking. TACAS 2019: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Prag, Apr 6, 2019 - Apr 11, 2019. In: VOJNAR, Tomáš, ed., Lijun ZHANG, ed.. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems : 25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019. Cham:Springer International Publishing, pp. 226-243. ISSN 0302-9743. eISSN 1611-3349. ISBN 978-3-030-17461-3. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-17462-0_13
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@inproceedings{Christakis2019-04-04Seman-53640,
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  doi={10.1007/978-3-030-17462-0_13},
  title={Semantic Fault Localization and Suspiciousness Ranking},
  number={11427},
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  issn={0302-9743},
  publisher={Springer International Publishing},
  address={Cham},
  series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  booktitle={Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems : 25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019},
  pages={226--243},
  editor={Vojnar, Tomáš and Zhang, Lijun},
  author={Christakis, Maria and Heizmann, Matthias and Mansur, Muhammad Numair and Schilling, Christian and Wüstholz, Valentin}
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