Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks

Autores
Soria, Alvaro; Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres; Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
Año de publicación
2015
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Finding software faults is a problematic activity in many systems. Existing approaches usually work close to the system implementation and require developers to perform different code analyses. Although these approaches are effective, the amount of information to be managed by developers is often overwhelming. This problem calls for complementary approaches able to work at higher levels of abstraction than code, helping developers to keep intellectual control over the system when analyzing faults. In this context, we present an expert-system approach, called FLABot, which assists developers in fault-localization tasks by reasoning about faults using software architecture models. We have evaluated a prototype of FLABot in two medium-size case studies, involving novice and non-novice developers. We compared time consumed, code browsed and faults found by these developers, with and without the support of FLABot, observing interesting effort reductions when applying FLABot. The results and lessons learned have shown that our approach is practical and reduces the efforts for finding individual faults.
Fil: Soria, Alvaro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingenieria del Software; Argentina
Fil: Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingenieria del Software; Argentina
Fil: Campo, Marcelo Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingenieria del Software; Argentina
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Software Architecture
Fault Analysis
Tool Support
Use-Case Maps
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
title Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
spellingShingle Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
Soria, Alvaro
Software Architecture
Fault Analysis
Tool Support
Use-Case Maps
title_short Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
title_full Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
title_fullStr Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
title_full_unstemmed Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
title_sort Architecture-driven Assistance for Fault-localization Tasks
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Soria, Alvaro
Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres
Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
author Soria, Alvaro
author_facet Soria, Alvaro
Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres
Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
author_role author
author2 Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres
Campo, Marcelo Ricardo
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Software Architecture
Fault Analysis
Tool Support
Use-Case Maps
topic Software Architecture
Fault Analysis
Tool Support
Use-Case Maps
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Finding software faults is a problematic activity in many systems. Existing approaches usually work close to the system implementation and require developers to perform different code analyses. Although these approaches are effective, the amount of information to be managed by developers is often overwhelming. This problem calls for complementary approaches able to work at higher levels of abstraction than code, helping developers to keep intellectual control over the system when analyzing faults. In this context, we present an expert-system approach, called FLABot, which assists developers in fault-localization tasks by reasoning about faults using software architecture models. We have evaluated a prototype of FLABot in two medium-size case studies, involving novice and non-novice developers. We compared time consumed, code browsed and faults found by these developers, with and without the support of FLABot, observing interesting effort reductions when applying FLABot. The results and lessons learned have shown that our approach is practical and reduces the efforts for finding individual faults.
Fil: Soria, Alvaro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingenieria del Software; Argentina
Fil: Diaz Pace, Jorge Andres. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingenieria del Software; Argentina
Fil: Campo, Marcelo Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingenieria del Software; Argentina
description Finding software faults is a problematic activity in many systems. Existing approaches usually work close to the system implementation and require developers to perform different code analyses. Although these approaches are effective, the amount of information to be managed by developers is often overwhelming. This problem calls for complementary approaches able to work at higher levels of abstraction than code, helping developers to keep intellectual control over the system when analyzing faults. In this context, we present an expert-system approach, called FLABot, which assists developers in fault-localization tasks by reasoning about faults using software architecture models. We have evaluated a prototype of FLABot in two medium-size case studies, involving novice and non-novice developers. We compared time consumed, code browsed and faults found by these developers, with and without the support of FLABot, observing interesting effort reductions when applying FLABot. The results and lessons learned have shown that our approach is practical and reduces the efforts for finding individual faults.
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