摘要
Debuggingisatime-consumingtaskinsoftwaredevelopment.Althoughvariousautomatedapproacheshavebeenproposed,theyarenoteffectiveenough.Ontheotherhand,inmanualdebugging,developershavedifficultyinchoosingbreakpoints.Toaddresstheseproblemsandhelpdeveloperslocatefaultseffectively,weproposeaninteractivefault-localizationframework,combiningthebenefitsofautomatedapproachesandmanualdebugging.Beforethefaultisfound,thisframeworkcontinuouslyrecommendscheckingpointsbasedonstatements'suspicions,whicharecalculatedaccordingtotheexecutioninformationoftestcasesandthefeedbackinformationfromthedeveloperatearliercheckingpoints.Thenweproposeanaiveapproach,whichisaninitialimplementationofthisframework.However,withthisnaiveapproachormanualdebugging,developers'wrongestimationofwhetherthefaultystatementisexecutedbeforethecheckingpoint(breakpoint)maymakethedebuggingprocessfail.Soweproposeanotherrobustapproachbasedonthisframework,handlingcaseswheredevelopersmakemistakesduringthefault-localizationprocess.Weperformedtwoexperimentalstudiesandtheresultsshowthatthetwointeractiveapproachesarequiteeffectivecomparedwithexistingfault-localizationapproaches.Moreover,therobustapproachcanhelpdevelopersfindfaultswhentheymakewrongestimationatsomecheckingpoints.
出版日期
2009年05月15日（中国期刊网平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）
