FLAVS: A Fault Localization Add-In for Visual Studio

Author

Nan Wang ; Zheng Zheng ; Zhenyu Zhang ; Cheng Chen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Beihang Univ. Beijing, Beijing, China

fYear

2015

fDate

23-23 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Dynamic fault localization is a representative concept and product proposed by academia to alleviate software engineering pains, but it is rarely heard adopted or used in realistic development. Realizing the difficulties in transferring the approaches of dynamic fault localization to practical tools, this paper gives our work FLAVS, whose add-in implementation organically and seamlessly integrates the approach of dynamic fault localization with software IDEs. The tool is useful for developers using Microsoft Visual Studio platform to debug and test programs with complex bugs. Besides, it is also valuable for researchers to design new fault localization methods and draw performance comparison among different method candidates.

Keywords

program debugging; program testing; software fault tolerance; FLAVS; Microsoft Visual Studio platform; add-in implementation; complex bugs; dynamic fault localization; fault localization add-in; program debug; program test; software IDE; Computer bugs; Debugging; Environmental factors; Instruments; Software; Testing; Visualization; Microsoft Visual Studio add-in; fault localization; fault localization tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex Faults and Failures in Large Software Systems (COUFLESS), 2015 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COUFLESS.2015.8

Filename

7181475