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Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input (2002) (989)
Mining version histories to guide software changes (2004) (877)
Mining metrics to predict component failures (2006) (809)
Predicting Defects for Eclipse (2007) (749)
When do changes induce fixes? (2005) (728)
Locating causes of program failures (2005) (653)
Mining version histories to guide software changes (2005) (523)
Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs (2002) (507)
Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (1999) (440)
Predicting faults from cached history (2008) (433)
Why Programs Fail - A Guide to Systematic Debugging, 2nd Edition (2005) (431)
Checking app behavior against app descriptions (2014) (427)
Mutation-Driven Generation of Unit Tests and Oracles (2010) (407)
Predicting vulnerable software components (2007) (393)
It's not a bug, it's a feature: How misclassification impacts bug prediction (2013) (381)
How Long Will It Take to Fix This Bug? (2007) (377)
Fuzzing with Code Fragments (2012) (322)
Automated Fixing of Programs with Contracts (2010) (317)
Detecting object usage anomalies (2007) (269)
The impact of tangled code changes (2013) (257)
Mining Apps for Abnormal Usage of Sensitive Data (2015) (251)
Lightweight Defect Localization for Java (2005) (235)
Javalanche: efficient mutation testing for Java (2009) (200)
Mining object behavior with ADABU (2006) (194)
Predicting component failures at design time (2006) (193)
Change Bursts as Defect Predictors (2010) (193)
When do changes induce fixes? (2005) (181)
The Impact of Equivalent Mutants (2009) (177)
Efficient mutation testing by checking invariant violations (2009) (168)
Where Should We Fix This Bug? A Two-Phase Recommendation Model (2013) (164)
How history justifies system architecture (or not) (2003) (152)
Generating test cases for specification mining (2010) (144)
Mining temporal specifications from object usage (2009) (142)
Generating Fixes from Object Behavior Anomalies (2009) (137)
Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs (2002) (130)
(Un-)Covering Equivalent Mutants (2010) (128)
DDD—a free graphical front-end for UNIX debuggers (1996) (125)
Efficient unit test case minimization (2007) (123)
Search-based system testing: high coverage, no false alarms (2012) (119)
Isolating failure-inducing thread schedules (2002) (113)
Mining input grammars from dynamic taints (2016) (107)
Mining trends of library usage (2009) (103)
Visualizing Memory Graphs (2001) (103)
Unified versioning through feature logic (1997) (98)
When do changes induce fixes? On Fridays (2005) (96)
Predicting Faults from Cached History (2007) (95)
Making students read and review code (2000) (90)
Covering and Uncovering Equivalent Mutants (2013) (89)
Learning from 6,000 projects: lightweight cross-project anomaly detection (2010) (88)
Lightweight bug localization with AMPLE (2005) (86)
Generating parameterized unit tests (2011) (82)
Why Programs Fail, Second Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging (2009) (81)
Simplifying failure-inducing input (2000) (79)
Predicting Bugs from History (2008) (76)
Which Crashes Should I Fix First?: Predicting Top Crashes at an Early Stage to Prioritize Debugging Efforts (2011) (76)
Isolating failure causes through test case generation (2012) (75)
Where is the bug and how is it fixed? an experiment with practitioners (2017) (73)
Predicting defects using change genealogies (2013) (72)
If Your Bug Database Could Talk . . . (2006) (71)
Automatically Generating Test Cases for Specification Mining (2012) (69)
Mining version archives for co-changed lines (2006) (68)
HATARI: raising risk awareness (2005) (67)
Minimizing reproduction of software failures (2011) (65)
Mining API Popularity (2010) (65)
Assessing Oracle Quality with Checked Coverage (2011) (64)
The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models (2016) (63)
Automated Debugging: Are We Close (2001) (61)
Practical Test Dependency Detection (2018) (60)
Mining behavior models from enterprise web applications (2013) (54)
Profiling Java programs for parallelism (2009) (51)
Exploiting Common Object Usage in Test Case Generation (2011) (51)
Reconstructing Core Dumps (2013) (49)
WebMate: a tool for testing web 2.0 applications (2012) (49)
The Future of Programming Environments: Integration, Synergy, and Assistance (2007) (47)
Finding Failure Causes through Automated Testing (2000) (47)
Chapter 6 – Scientific Debugging (2006) (45)
Mining Sandboxes (2016) (45)
EXSYST: Search-based GUI testing (2012) (44)
Better Code, Better Sharing: On the Need of Analyzing Jupyter Notebooks (2019) (44)
Predicting defects in SAP Java code: An experience report (2009) (35)
Handling Version Sets Through Feature Logic (1995) (35)
TA-RE: an exchange language for mining software repositories (2006) (35)
WebMate: Generating Test Cases for Web 2.0 (2013) (35)
Detecting Behavior Anomalies in Graphical User Interfaces (2017) (35)
Isolating relevant component interactions with JINSI (2006) (34)
Learning user interface element interactions (2019) (33)
DroidMate: A Robust and Extensible Test Generator for Android (2016) (33)
Detecting information flow by mutating input data (2017) (32)
Parser-directed fuzzing (2019) (32)
Mining Input Grammars with AUTOGRAM (2017) (29)
Failure is a four-letter word: a parody in empirical research (2011) (29)
Assessing and Restoring Reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks (2020) (29)
Inferring Loop Invariants by Mutation, Dynamic Analysis, and Static Checking (2014) (26)
What is the long-term impact of changes? (2008) (26)
Configuration management with version sets: a unified software versioning model and its applications (1997) (25)
Checked coverage: an indicator for oracle quality (2013) (25)
Program Analysis: A Hierarchy (2003) (24)
Mining Cause-Effect-Chains from Version Histories (2011) (23)
Guiding App Testing with Mined Interaction Models (2018) (23)
Localizing Bugs in Program Executions with Graphical Models (2009) (22)
Systematically Covering Input Structure (2019) (22)
A unified version model for configuration management (1995) (21)
Mining input grammars from dynamic control flow (2020) (21)
Restoring Execution Environments of Jupyter Notebooks (2021) (20)
Sambamba: A Runtime System for Online Adaptive Parallelization (2012) (20)
CUT: automatic unit testing in the cloud (2017) (20)
Mining Evolution of Object Usage (2011) (19)
Quantifying the information leak in cache attacks via symbolic execution (2017) (19)
Mining the Jazz repository: Challenges and opportunities (2009) (19)
Exposing Backdoors in Robust Machine Learning Models (2020) (18)
XMLMate: evolutionary XML test generation (2014) (18)
Predicting Effort to Fix Software Bugs (2007) (18)
DroidMate-2: A Platform for Android Test Generation (2018) (18)
Learning input tokens for effective fuzzing (2020) (18)
WebMate: Web Application Test Generation in the Real World (2014) (17)
Smooth Operatons with Square Operators - The Version Set Model in ICE (1996) (17)
Breeding High-Impact Mutations (2011) (17)
Mining Workflow Models from Web Applications (2015) (17)
Configuration Management with Version Sets (1997) (17)
AccessiLeaks: Investigating Privacy Leaks Exposed by the Android Accessibility Service (2019) (16)
The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth (2016) (16)
Automatically Granted Permissions in Android apps: An Empirical Study on their Prevalence and on the Potential Threats for Privacy (2020) (16)
Building Fast Fuzzers (2019) (15)
Why Programs Fail (2005) (15)
Sambamba: runtime adaptive parallel execution (2013) (15)
Quantifying the Information Leakage in Cache Attacks via Symbolic Execution (2019) (14)
Anatomy of Functionality Deletion: An Exploratory Study on Mobile Apps (2018) (14)
Poster: Efficient GUI Test Generation by Learning from Tests of Other Apps (2018) (14)
Isolating Intrusions by Automatic Experiments (2006) (14)
Sample-Free Learning of Input Grammars for Comprehensive Software Fuzzing (2018) (13)
Artifact Evaluation for Publications (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 15452) (2015) (13)
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis (2021) (13)
Search-based security testing of web applications (2014) (13)
Replaying and isolating failing multi-object interactions (2008) (13)
eROSE: guiding programmers in eclipse (2005) (12)
Extrinsic influence factors in software reliability: a study of 200,000 windows machines (2014) (12)
Specifications for Free (2011) (12)
Transferring Tests Across Web Applications (2018) (12)
Generalized Task Parallelism (2015) (12)
O!Snap: Cost-Efficient Testing in the Cloud (2017) (12)
Where do bugs come from? (2006) (11)
Using Dynamic Symbolic Execution to Generate Inputs in Search-Based GUI Testing (2015) (11)
Versioning System Models Through Description Logic (1998) (11)
Automated debugging in eclipse (2005) (11)
DynaMate: Dynamically Inferring Loop Invariants for Automatic Full Functional Verification (2014) (11)
Configuration Management with Feature Logics (1994) (11)
Debugging Inputs (2020) (10)
HATARI: Raising Risk Awareness. Research Demonstration (2005) (10)
Automated debugging in Eclipse: (at the touch of not even a button) (2003) (10)
Classifying code changes and predicting defects using changegenealogies (2013) (9)
Checking app user interfaces against app descriptions (2016) (9)
ProCrawl: mining test models from multi-user web applications (2014) (9)
When does my program do this? learning circumstances of software behavior (2020) (9)
Composition of Modular Models for Verification of Distributed Automation Systems (2018) (9)
Abstracting failure-inducing inputs (2020) (8)
Carving Parameterized Unit Tests (2018) (8)
Search-Based Testing and System Testing: A Marriage in Heaven (2017) (8)
Inputs from Hell: Learning Input Distributions for Grammar-Based Test Generation (2021) (8)
When life gives you oranges: detecting and diagnosing intermittent job failures at Mozilla (2021) (8)
Visual debugging with ddd (2001) (8)
Test Complement Exclusion: Guarantees from Dynamic Analysis (2015) (8)
Restoring Reproducibility of Jupyter Notebooks (2020) (7)
Can We Trust Software Repositories? (2013) (7)
Mining Your Own Evidence (2011) (7)
Guest Editors' Introduction: Mining Software Archives (2009) (7)
CALAPPA: a toolchain for mining Android applications (2016) (6)
If You Can't Kill a Supermutant, You Have a Problem (2018) (6)
Predicting Software Metrics at Design Time (2008) (6)
Challenges for functional testing of reconfigurable production systems (2016) (6)
Mining Specifications: A Roadmap (2010) (6)
Mining Bug Data - A Practitioner's Guide (2014) (6)
Inferring Input Grammars from Dynamic Control Flow (2019) (6)
Active Learning of Input Grammars (2017) (6)
Quantifying the Information Leak in Cache Attacks through Symbolic Execution (2016) (5)
Mutation-driven Generation of Oracles and Unit Tests (2010) (5)
Analyzing the User Interface of Android Apps (2018) (5)
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering (2011) (5)
Heaps'n Leaks: How Heap Snapshots Improve Android Taint Analysis (2020) (5)
Mining Android Apps for Anomalies (2015) (5)
Self-Repairing Programs (Dagstuhl Seminar 11062) (2011) (5)
Causes and Effects in Computer Programs (2003) (5)
Thread-level speculation with kernel support (2016) (4)
Debugging debugging: acm sigsoft impact paper award keynote (2009) (4)
How Developers Debug Software — The DBGBENCH Dataset (2017) (4)
Testing and Verification of Compilers (Dagstuhl Seminar 17502) (2017) (4)
Component based Verification of Distributed Automation Systems based on Model Composition (2018) (4)
When Does My Program Fail? (2011) (4)
Calibrated Mutation Testing (2011) (4)
Generating Unit Tests with Structured System Interactions (2017) (4)
Isolating cause-effect chains with AskIgor (2003) (4)
Testing Apps With Real-World Inputs (2020) (4)
Search-Based Program Analysis (2011) (4)
Test case selection for networked production systems (2015) (4)
Automating Full Functional Verification of Programs with Loops (2014) (4)
Functional verification of distributed automation systems (2019) (4)
Essential open source toolset - programming with Eclipse, JUnit, CVS, Bugzilla, Ant, Tcl/Tk and more (2005) (3)
Learning from software (2008) (3)
Entwicklung sicherer Software durch Security by Design (2013) (3)
Inputs from Hell: Generating Uncommon Inputs from Common Samples (2018) (3)
Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis (2008) (3)
How Failures Come to Be (2009) (3)
How developers debug software the DbgBench dataset: poster (2017) (3)
Learning from 6,000 Projects: Mining Models in the Large (2010) (3)
FormatFuzzer: Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats (2021) (3)
Fifth International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2007) (2007) (3)
Probabilistic Grammar-based Test Generation (2021) (2)
Isolating cause-effect chains in computer systems (2007) (2)
Automated Debugging of Programs with Contracts (2010) (2)
A Unified Configuration Management Model (1995) (2)
Test generation across multiple layers (2014) (2)
Assessing modularity via usage changes (2011) (2)
What do all these Buttons do? Statically Mining Android User Interfaces at Scale (2021) (2)
Why Does this App Need this Data? Automatic Tightening of Resource Access (2019) (2)
Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (2016) (2)
Fuzzing with Fast Failure Feedback (2020) (2)
Mining Models (2012) (2)
Mining Input Grammars (2021) (2)
Model-based testing of end-user collaboration intensive systems (2017) (2)
Chapter 1 – How Failures Come to Be (2006) (2)
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering (2004) (2)
Speeding up GUI Testing by On-Device Test Generation (2020) (2)
Inter-Application Communication Testing of Android Applications Using Intent Fuzzing (2014) (1)
Mining Version Archives for Co-changed Lines – Extended Version – (2006) (1)
Incremental Configuration Management Based on Feature Unification (2008) (1)
Object Request Broker DB function DB function DB Web Service Distributed Architectures Software Engineering (2000) (1)
Project-specific deletion patterns (2008) (1)
Inputs From Hell: (2022) (1)
Isolating Failure-Inducing Input (2001) (1)
Compiler Construction : 15th International Conference, CC 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Vienna, Austria, March 30-31, 2006, Proceedings (2006) (1)
Isolating Failure Causes (2009) (1)
Predicting Component Failures at Early Design Time (2006) (1)
Fault Prediction, Localization, and Repair (Dagstuhl Seminar 13061) (2013) (1)
Multi-Version Program Analysis (2006) (1)
Bridging the Gap between Unit Test Generation and System Test Generation (2019) (1)
Mining apps for anomalies (2016) (1)
05261 Summary - Multi-Version Program Analysis (2005) (1)
How Developers Diagnose and Repair Software Bugs ( and what we can do about it ) (2016) (1)
Input invariants (2022) (1)
Extraction of Attack Signatures (2007) (1)
Making Programs Fail (2009) (1)
Frontmatter: mining Android user interfaces at scale (2021) (1)
Software Connguration with Feature Logic (1996) (1)
How Design Predicts Failures (2006) (1)
Inducing Subtle Mutations with Program Repair (2021) (1)
Demand-driven Pointer Analysis on Explicit Dependence Graphs (2009) (1)
Locating faults with program slicing: an empirical analysis (2021) (1)
Evaluating a Lightweight Defect Localization Tool (2005) (1)
Message from the ICSE 2022 Program Chairs (2022) (1)
Abnormal sensitive data usage in android apps (2016) (0)
Causes and Effects (2009) (0)
App Mining (2017) (0)
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis For Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE'04, Washington, DC, USA, June 7-8, 2004 (2004) (0)
DroidMate-2: A Platform for Android Test Generation (Source Code) (2021) (0)
05261 Abstracts Collection - Multi-Version Program Analysis (2005) (0)
Chapter 7 – Deducing Errors (2006) (0)
Proceedings of the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (2013) (0)
Input Algebras (2021) (0)
Replication Package for Input Algebras (2021) (0)
Chapter 5 – Simplifying Problems (2006) (0)
Learning Circumstances of Software Failures (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 10 – Asserting Expectations (2006) (0)
Chapter 3 – Making Programs Fail (2006) (0)
When Abstraction Fails (2005) (0)
Guest editorial: emerging areas in automated software engineering research (2017) (0)
ICSE 2011 technical briefings (2011) (0)
Multi-Version Program Analysis Dagstuhl Seminar (2006) (0)
Replication package for Abstracting Failure Inducing Inputs (2020) (0)
2 13061 – Fault Prediction , Localization , and Repair 1 Executive Summary (2013) (0)
Guest editorial: emerging areas in automated software engineering research (2017) (0)
Session details: Formal demos (2010) (0)
2 . 1 The Change that Causes a Failure (0)
Multi-Version Program Analysis, 26. June - 1. July 2005 (2006) (0)
Proceedings of the ACM/SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2008, Seattle, WA, USA, July 20-24, 2008 (2008) (0)
18 11062 – Self-Repairing Programs Common Concerns and Insights (2011) (0)
Trust, but Control: A Paradigm Shift in Program Analysis (2015) (0)
Emerging Faculty Symposium 2010 (2010) (0)
Program Program with Invariant Checkers Surviving Mutations RankingMutations 1 2 3 4 5 Tester (2008) (0)
A Useful Resource for Defect Prediction Models (2009) (0)
Poster: How Developers Debug Software The DBGBENCH Dataset (2017) (0)
How to Compare Fuzzers (2022) (0)
VDI Status Report Testing of Networked Systems for Industrie 4.0 (2018) (0)
2 Data Mining Version Histories Thomas Zimmermann (2004) (0)
Session details: Web and security (2008) (0)
2 Errors are Easy to Detect , But Generally Impossible to Locate (2005) (0)
07491 Abstracts Collection - Mining Programs and Processes (2007) (0)
Woda 2003 Icse Workshop on Dynamic Analysis Table of Contents Program Analysis: a Hierarchy (2003) (0)
Generating Tests that Cover Input Structure (2021) (0)
CHAPTER 11 – Detecting Anomalies (2006) (0)
CLIFuzzer: mining grammars for command-line invocations (2022) (0)
07491 Abstracts Collection Mining Programs and Processes Dagstuhl Seminar (2009) (0)
Inferring Loop Invariants Dynamically (2012) (0)
Mining Precise Specifications - (Abstract) (2011) (0)
JTACO: Test Execution for Faster Bounded Verification (2014) (0)
Fixing the Defect (2009) (0)
Learning from Mistakes (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 8 – Observing Facts (2006) (0)
Electronic Appendix to "Input Invariants" (2022) (0)
Chapter 12 – Causes and Effects (2006) (0)
CHAPTER 9 – Tracking Origins (2006) (0)
2 How Call Sequences Indicate Defects (2004) (0)
Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing - 5th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2009, Haifa, Israel, October 19-22, 2009, Revised Selected Papers (2011) (0)
Isolating Cause–Effect Chains (2009) (0)
Locating the Risk of Changes (2005) (0)
Chapter 13 – Isolating Failure Causes (2006) (0)
TRANT — A Scalable Trace Analysis Toolset for Java (2014) (0)
Chapter 14 – Isolating Cause-Effect Chains (2006) (0)
Proceedings of the 2nd international Haifa verification conference on Hardware and software, verification and testing (2006) (0)
Isolating Cause-Effect Chains with AskIgor - Tool Demo - (2003) (0)
Debugging inputs (2020) (0)
SIGSOFT/FSE'11 19th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-19) and ESEC'11: 13th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC-13), Szeged, Hungary, September 5-9, 2011 (2011) (0)
Grammar-Based Sampling (2020) (0)
The impact of tangled code changes on defect prediction models (2015) (0)
Proving programs continuous: technical perspective (2012) (0)
Personalization of Search on Structured Data (2008) (0)
Efficient Typestate Verification for Java (2009) (0)
IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2020) (2022) (0)
Introduction: The Best Papers of ISSTA (2010) (0)
Replication Package for lFuzzer - Learning Input Tokens for Effective Fuzzing (2020) (0)
Don ’ t Program on Fridays ! (2005) (0)
Mining Sandboxes for Security - Automatisches Sandboxing für Software-Sicherheit (2017) (0)
Predicting Defects in SAP Products: A Replicated Study (2007) (0)
Understanding Program Dynamics (Dagstuhl Seminar 03491) (2021) (0)
“Synthesizing input grammars”: a replication study (2022) (0)
CHAPTER 4 – Reproducing Problems (2006) (0)
Poster: Debugging Inputs (2020) (0)
SFLKit: a workbench for statistical fault localization (2022) (0)
Isolating Faults in Failure-Inducing Inputs (2021) (0)
Locating CausesofProgram Failures (2005) (0)
Lightweight Mining of Object Usage (2011) (0)
Software-Metriken (2000) (0)
07491 Executive Summary - Mining Programs and Processes (2007) (0)
Chapter 15 – Fixing the Defect (2006) (0)
Input Repair via Synthesis and Lightweight Error Feedback (2022) (0)
Academic prototyping (invited tutorial) (2022) (0)
Compiler Construction: 15th International Conference, CC 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (2006) (0)
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Compiler Construction (2006) (0)
Wisdom of app stores: Early identification of malicious Android apps from Google Play (2022) (0)
CHAPTER 2 – Tracking Problems (2006) (0)

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