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Failure proximity: a fault localization-based approach

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Liu, Chao Han, Jiawei
Abstract	Recent software systems usually feature an automated failure reporting system, with which a huge number of failing traces are collected every day. In order to prioritize fault diagnosis, failing traces due to the same fault are expected to be grouped together. Previous methods, by hypothesizing that similar failing traces imply the same fault, cluster failing traces based on the literal trace similarity, which we call trace proximity. However, since a fault can be triggered in many ways, failing traces due to the same fault can be quite different. Therefore, previous methods actually group together traces exhibiting similar behaviors, like similar branch coverage, rather than traces due to the same fault. In this paper, we propose a new type of failure proximity, called R-Proximity, which regards two failing traces as similar if they suggest roughly the same fault location. The fault location each failing case suggests is automatically obtained with Sober, an existing statistical debugging tool. We show that with R-Proximity, failing traces due to the same fault can be grouped together. In addition, we find that R-Proximity is helpful for statistical debugging: It can help developers interpret and utilize the statistical debugging result. We illustrate the usage of R-Proximity with a case study on the grep program and some experiments on the Siemens suite, and the result clearly demonstrates the advantage of R-Proximity over trace proximity.
Starting Page	46
Ending Page	56
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1595934685
DOI	10.1145/1181775.1181782
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2006-11-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Statistical debugging Failure proximity Debugging aids
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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