Fault Localization Using Failure-Related Contexts for Automatic Program Repair

Ang LI; Xiaoguang MAO; Yan LEI; Tao JI

doi:10.1587/transinf.2014EDL8189

Fault Localization Using Failure-Related Contexts for Automatic Program Repair

Ang LI, Xiaoguang MAO, Yan LEI, Tao JI

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Fault localization is essential for conducting effective program repair. However, preliminary studies have shown that existing fault localization approaches do not take the requirements of automatic repair into account, and therefore restrict the repair performance. To address this issue, this paper presents the first study on designing fault localization approaches for automatic program repair, that is, we propose a fault localization approach using failure-related contexts in order to improve automatic program repair. The proposed approach first utilizes program slicing technique to construct a failure-related context, then evaluates the suspiciousness of each element in this context, and finally transfers the result of evaluation to automatic program repair techniques for performing repair on faulty programs. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective to improve automatic repair performance.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E98-D No.4 pp.955-959

Publication Date: 2015/04/01

Publicized: 2015/01/08

Online ISSN: 1745-1361

DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2014EDL8189

Type of Manuscript: LETTER

Category: Software Engineering

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Ang LI
  National University of Defense Technology
Xiaoguang MAO
  National University of Defense Technology
Yan LEI
  National University of Defense Technology
Tao JI
  National University of Defense Technology

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automatic repair, fault localization, failure-related context, program slicing, suspiciousness evaluation

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Ang LI, Xiaoguang MAO, Yan LEI, Tao JI, "Fault Localization Using Failure-Related Contexts for Automatic Program Repair" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information, vol. E98-D, no. 4, pp. 955-959, April 2015, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2014EDL8189.
Abstract: Fault localization is essential for conducting effective program repair. However, preliminary studies have shown that existing fault localization approaches do not take the requirements of automatic repair into account, and therefore restrict the repair performance. To address this issue, this paper presents the first study on designing fault localization approaches for automatic program repair, that is, we propose a fault localization approach using failure-related contexts in order to improve automatic program repair. The proposed approach first utilizes program slicing technique to construct a failure-related context, then evaluates the suspiciousness of each element in this context, and finally transfers the result of evaluation to automatic program repair techniques for performing repair on faulty programs. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective to improve automatic repair performance.
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