Bug localization in game software engineering: evolving simulations to locate bugs in software models of video games
Wed 17 May 2023 15:36 - 15:38 at Meeting Room 105 - Posters 1
Video games have characteristics that differentiate their development and maintenance from classic software development and maintenance. These differences have led to the coining of the term Game Software Engineering to name the emerging subfield that intersects Software Engineering and video games. One of these differences is that video game developers perceive more difficulties than other non-game developers when it comes to locating bugs. Our work proposes a novel way to locate bugs in video games by means of evolving simulations. As the baseline, we have chosen BLiMEA, which targets classic software engineering and uses bug reports and the defect localization principle to locate bugs. We also include Random Search as a sanity check in the evaluation. We evaluate the approaches in a commercial video game (Kromaia). The results for F-measure range from 46.80%. to 70.28% for five types of bugs. Our approach improved the results of the baseline by 20.29% in F-measure. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach that is designed specifically for bug localization in video games. A focus group with professional video game developers has confirmed the acceptance of our approach. Our approach opens a new research direction for bug localization for both game software engineering and possibly classic software engineering.
Wed 17 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
11:00 - 12:30 | Fault localizationJournal-First Papers / Technical Track / Showcase at Meeting Room 103 Chair(s): Rui Abreu University of Porto | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Evaluating the Impact of Experimental Assumptions in Automated Fault Localization Technical Track Ezekiel Soremekun Royal Holloway, University of London, Lukas Kirschner Saarland University, Marcel Böhme MPI-SP, Germany and Monash University, Australia, Mike Papadakis University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Locating Framework-specific Crashing Faults with Compact and Explainable Candidate Set Technical Track Jiwei Yan Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, MiaoMiao Wang Technology Center of Software Engineering, ISCAS, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China., Yepang Liu Southern University of Science and Technology, Jun Yan Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Long Zhang Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Pre-print | ||
11:30 15mTalk | PExReport: Automatic Creation of Pruned Executable Cross-Project Failure Reports Technical Track Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:45 15mTalk | Bug localization in game software engineering: evolving simulations to locate bugs in software models of video games Showcase Rodrigo Casamayor SVIT Research Group. Universidad San Jorge, Lorena Arcega San Jorge University, Francisca Pérez SVIT Research Group, Universidad San Jorge, Carlos Cetina San Jorge University, Spain DOI | ||
12:00 7mTalk | Real World Projects, Real Faults: Evaluating Spectrum Based Fault Localization Techniques on Python Projects Journal-First Papers Ratnadira Widyasari Singapore Management University, Singapore, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana Singapore Management University, Stefanus Agus Haryono Singapore Management University, Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba, David Lo Singapore Management University | ||
12:07 7mTalk | Effective Isolation of Fault-Correlated Variables via Statistical and Mutation Analysis Journal-First Papers Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zifan Xie Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Kaixuan Luo Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiao Chen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yibiao Yang Nanjing University, Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology | ||
12:15 15mTalk | RAT: A Refactoring-Aware Traceability Model for Bug Localization Technical Track Feifei Niu University of Ottawa, Wesley Assunção Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria & Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Liguo Huang Southern Methodist University, Christoph Mayr-Dorn JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ, Jidong Ge Nanjing University, Bin Luo Nanjing University, Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University Linz File Attached | ||