Fault Localization Techniques for Software Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Detecting faults in software is known as fault localization. Modern software is larger and more complex than ever before, and is a major component of any computer system. Whenever software testing execution fails, its test scripts are analyzed so that the point where a fault occurred can be detected and the expected result can be achieved.

There is a strong demand for techniques that can guide software developers to the locations of faults in a program with minimal human intervention. Therefore, researchers are invited to submit their research on this topic to this Special Issue. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Strategies for effective and efficient program debugging, fault localization, and repair;
• Defect prediction;
• Debugging and repair of multi-{core, process, or threaded};
• Integrating debugging and repair with other software development and maintenance activities;
• Empirical studies, benchmarking, and industrial best practices;
• Applications and tools;
• Visualizations for fault localization;
• Deep learning-based fault localization;
• Artificial Intelligence techniques and fault localization;
• Debugging pervasive, ubiquitous, service-oriented, cloud computing collaborative, distributed, embedded, real-time, high-performance, highly dependable, and intelligent multimedia systems.

Prof. Dr. Byoungju Choi
Guest Editor

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