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  • Improving Fault Localization Using Conditional Variational Autoencoder

    Xianmei FANG  Xiaobo GAO  Yuting WANG  Zhouyu LIAO  Yue MA  

     
    LETTER-Software Engineering

      Pubricized:
    2022/05/13
      Vol:
    E105-D No:8
      Page(s):
    1490-1494

    Fault localization analyzes the runtime information of two classes of test cases (i.e., passing test cases and failing test cases) to identify suspicious statements potentially responsible for a failure. However, the failing test cases are always far fewer than passing test cases in reality, and the class imbalance problem will affect fault localization effectiveness. To address this issue, we propose a data augmentation approach using conditional variational auto-encoder to synthesize new failing test cases for FL. The experimental results show that our approach significantly improves six state-of-the-art fault localization techniques.