Searching for Multi-Fault Programs in Defects4J


Abstract in English

Defects4J has enabled numerous software testing and debugging research work since its introduction. A large part of its contribution, and the resulting popularity, lies in the clear separation and distillation of the root cause of each individual test failure based on careful manual analysis, which in turn allowed researchers to easily study individual faults in isolation. However, in a realistic debugging scenario, multiple faults can coexist and affect test results collectively. Study of automated debugging techniques for these situations, such as failure clustering or fault localisation for multiple faults, would significantly benefit from a reliable benchmark of multiple, coexisting faults. We search f

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