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Statistical debugging using compound Boolean predicates

Arumuga Nainar et al., 2007

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5573164992986300192
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Arumuga Nainar P
Chen T
Rosin J
Liblit B
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Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Software testing and analysis

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Statistical debugging uses dynamic instrumentation and machine learning to identify predicates on program state that are strongly predictive of program failure. Prior approaches have only considered simple, atomic predicates such as the directions of branches or the …
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