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Finding Failure Causes through Automated Testing

Holger Cleve, Andreas Zeller

cs.SEarXiv:cs/0012009

Abstract

A program fails. Under which circumstances does this failure occur? One single algorithm, the delta debugging algorithm, suffices to determine these failure-inducing circumstances. Delta debugging tests a program systematically and automatically to isolate failure-inducing circumstances such as the program input, changes to the program code, or executed statements.

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