Ask the Mutants: Mutating Faulty Programs for Fault Localization

By Seokhyeon Moon, Yunho Kim, Moonzoo Kim, Shin Yoo. 2014 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 2014

299 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Software

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a615f957b8199fe9fed72b8fe85c03152f5c1714

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1. Chun Xia
2. Lingming Zhang
3. Yinlin Deng
4. Soren Dunn
5. René Just
6. Michael D. Ernst
7. Gordon Fraser
8. Rui Abreu

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1. Lingming Zhang
2. Chun Xia
3. Yinlin Deng
4. Soren Dunn
5. René Just
6. Michael D. Ernst
7. Gordon Fraser
8. Rui Abreu

Citations in the corpus

• Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents (2024, methodology): “Dynamic FL techniques mainly include spectrum-based FL (SBFL) [47, 25, 24] and mutation-based FL (MBFL) [77, 68, 63].”
• Evaluating and Improving Fault Localization (2017, methodology): “…techniques: spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL techniques for short) [3], [18], [31], [44], which is the most studied and evaluated FL technique; and mutation-based fault localization (MBFL techniques for short), which is reported to significantly outperform SBFL techniques [30], [33].”
• SHERLOC: Structured Diagnostic Localization for Code Repair Agents (2026, unknown): “For repository-level repair, this granularity is not always aligned with the target edit: patches may modify class-level declarations, imports, configuration logic, or coordinated regions across functions.”