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Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

2013

Empirical Study

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Theory And Practice, Do They Match? A Case With Spectrum-Based Fault Localization, Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo Sep 2013

Theory And Practice, Do They Match? A Case With Spectrum-Based Fault Localization, Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, David Lo

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Spectrum-based fault localization refers to the process of identifying program units that are buggy from two sets of execution traces: normal traces and faulty traces. These approaches use statistical formulas to measure the suspiciousness of program units based on the execution traces. There have been many spectrum-based fault localization approaches proposing various formulas in the literature. Two of the best performing and well-known ones are Tarantula and Ochiai. Recently, Xie et al. find that theoretically, under certain assumptions, two families of spectrum-based fault localization formulas outperform all other formulas including those of Tarantula and Ochiai. In this work, we empirically …


An Empirical Study Of Bugs In Software Build Systems, Xin Xia, Xiaozhen Zhou, David Lo, Xiaoqiong Zhao Jul 2013

An Empirical Study Of Bugs In Software Build Systems, Xin Xia, Xiaozhen Zhou, David Lo, Xiaoqiong Zhao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Build system converts source code, libraries and other data into executable programs by orchestrating the execution of compilers and other tools. The whole building process is managed by a software build system, such as Make, Ant, CMake, Maven, Scons, and QMake. The reliability of software build systems would affect the reliability of the build process. In this paper, we perform an empirical study on bugs in software build systems. We analyze four software build systems, Ant, Maven, CMake and QMake, which are four typical and widely-used software build systems, and can be used to build Java, C, C++ systems. We …