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ISSTA 2018
Sun 15 - Sat 21 July 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with ECOOP and ISSTA 2018
Mon 16 Jul 2018 14:20 - 14:40 at Zurich II - Testing and Fault Localization Chair(s): Cindy Rubio-González

In recent years, the use of Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to automate the localization of buggy files, given a bug report, has shown promising results. The abundance of approaches in the literature, however, contrasts with the reality of IR-based bug localization (IRBL) adoption by developers (or even by the research community to complement other research approaches). Presumably, this situation is due to the lack of comprehensive evaluations for state-of-the-art approaches which offer insights into the actual performance of the techniques.

We report on a comprehensive reproduction study of six state-of-the-art IRBL techniques. This study applies not only subjects used in existing studies (old subjects) but also 46 new subjects (amounting to 61,431 Java files and 9,459 bug reports) to the IRBL techniques. In addition, the study compares two different version matching (between bug reports and source code files) strategies to highlight some observations related to performance deterioration. We also vary test file inclusion to investigate the effectiveness of IRBL techniques on test files, or its noise impact on performance. Finally, we assess potential performance gain if duplicate bug reports are leveraged.

Mon 16 Jul

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14:00 - 15:30
Testing and Fault LocalizationISSTA Technical Papers at Zurich II
Chair(s): Cindy Rubio-González University of California, Davis
14:00
20m
Talk
Test Case Prioritization for Acceptance Testing of Cyber Physical Systems: A Multi-Objective Search-Based Approach
ISSTA Technical Papers
Seung Yeob Shin SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Shiva Nejati SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Lionel C. Briand SnT Centre/University of Luxembourg, Frank Zimmer SES Techcom
14:20
20m
Talk
Bench4BL: Reproducibility Study on the Performance of IR-Based Bug Localization
ISSTA Technical Papers
Jaekwon Lee University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Dongsun Kim University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Woosung Jung Seoul National University of Education, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg
14:40
20m
Talk
Automated Test Mapping and Coverage for Network Topologies
ISSTA Technical Papers
Per Erik Strandberg Westermo Research and Development AB, Thomas Ostrand , Elaine Weyuker Mälardalen University, Daniel Sundmark Mälardalen University, Wasif Afzal Mälardalen University
15:00
20m
Talk
Evaluating Test-Suite Reduction in Real-World Software Evolution
ISSTA Technical Papers
August Shi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alex Gyori Facebook, Muhammad Suleman Mahmood University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Peiyuan Zhao University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Darko Marinov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15:20
10m
Q&A in groups
ISSTA Technical Papers