Resultados de búsqueda para Spectrum-based fault localization

Artículo relevante publicado en 2018 en el ISTContext: Software Product Line (SPL) testing is challenging mainly due to the potentially huge number ofproducts under test. Most of the research on this field focuses on making testing affordable by selecting arepresentative subset of products to be tested. However, once the tests are executed and some failures revealed,debugging is a cumbersome and time consuming task due to difficulty to localize and isolate the faulty featuresin the SPL.Objective: This paper presents a debugging approach for the localization of bugs in SPLs.Method: The proposed approach works in two steps. First, the features of the SPL are ranked according to theirsuspiciousness (i.e., likelihood of being faulty) using spectrum-based localization techniques. Then, a novel faultisolation approach is used to generate valid products of minimum size containing the most suspicious features,helping to isolate the cause of failures.Results: For the evaluation of our approach, we compared ten suspiciousness techniques on nine SPLs of differentsizes. The results reveal that three of the techniques (Tarantula, Kulcynski2 and Ample2) stand out over the rest,showing a stable performance with different types of faults and product suite sizes. By using these metrics, faultswere localized by examining between 0.1% and 14.4% of the feature sets.Conclusion: Our results show that the proposed approach is effective at locating bugs in SPLs, serving as a helpfulcomplement for the numerous approaches for testing SPLs.