TY - GEN
T1 - A theoretical analysis on the impacts of misestimated test cases
AU - Xu, Yanhong
AU - Yin, Beibei
AU - Wan, Xiaohui
AU - Li, Chenglong
AU - Zheng, Zheng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/5
Y1 - 2018/12/5
N2 - The outcomes of test play an important role in fault localization. Due to the oracle problem, there are a large number of test cases unlabelled in testing. They can not be used directly and it seriously affects the effectiveness of Spectrum-based fault localization techniques(SBFL). To utilize those test cases, various approaches have been proposed to estimate test outcomes. However, there is no guarantee that all unlabelled test cases are identified correctly. It is unknown that how these misestimated test cases will influence the performance of SBFL. In this paper, a theoretical analysis on the impacts of misestimated test cases is performed by considering two different types of misestimating. There are 24 risk evaluation formulas investigated in our study. Based on the analysis, some suggestions are provided for the labelling of unlabelled test cases to make it be beneficial to locate faults.
AB - The outcomes of test play an important role in fault localization. Due to the oracle problem, there are a large number of test cases unlabelled in testing. They can not be used directly and it seriously affects the effectiveness of Spectrum-based fault localization techniques(SBFL). To utilize those test cases, various approaches have been proposed to estimate test outcomes. However, there is no guarantee that all unlabelled test cases are identified correctly. It is unknown that how these misestimated test cases will influence the performance of SBFL. In this paper, a theoretical analysis on the impacts of misestimated test cases is performed by considering two different types of misestimating. There are 24 risk evaluation formulas investigated in our study. Based on the analysis, some suggestions are provided for the labelling of unlabelled test cases to make it be beneficial to locate faults.
KW - fault localization, misestimated test cases, risk evaluation formulas
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85060694162
U2 - 10.1109/DSA.2018.00028
DO - 10.1109/DSA.2018.00028
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85060694162
T3 - Proceedings - 2018 5th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications, DSA 2018
SP - 113
EP - 118
BT - Proceedings - 2018 5th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications, DSA 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications, DSA 2018
Y2 - 22 September 2018 through 23 September 2018
ER -