(2017) Where is the Bug and How is It Fixed? An Experiment with Practitioners.
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Abstract
Research has produced many approaches to automatically locate, explain, and repair software bugs. But do these approaches relate to the way practitioners actually locate, understand, and fix bugs? To help answer this question, we have collected a dataset named DBGBENCH---the correct fault locations, bug diagnoses, and software patches of 27 real errors in open-source C projects that were consolidated from hundreds of debugging sessions of professional software engineers. Moreover, we shed light on the entire debugging process, from constructing a hypothesis to submitting a patch, and how debugging time, difficulty, and strategies vary across practitioners and types of errors. Most notably, DBGBENCH can serve as reality check for novel automated debugging and repair techniques.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (A Paper) (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Debugging in practice, Evaluation, User as tool benchmark, User studies |
| Divisions: | Andreas Zeller (Software Engineering, ST) |
| Conference: | ESEC/FSE European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (formerly listed as ESEC) |
| Depositing User: | Ezekiel Soremekun |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2018 08:09 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Apr 2020 10:39 |
| Primary Research Area: | NRA5: Empirical & Behavioral Security |
| URI: | https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/1468 |
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