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From the March/April 2012 Issue...

Fault Localization for Dynamic Web Applications

By Shay Artzi, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, and Marco Pistoia

Featured articleIn recent years, there has been significant interest in fault-localization techniques that are based on statistical analysis of program constructs executed by passing and failing executions. This paper shows how the Tarantula, Ochiai, and Jaccard fault-localization algorithms can be enhanced to localize faults effectively in web applications written in PHP by using an extended domain for conditional and function-call statements and by using a source mapping. We also propose several novel test-generation strategies that are geared toward producing test suites that have maximal fault-localization effectiveness...

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