Selecting Execution Path for Replaying Errors

The identification of the sources of a runtime error is a common task for Erlang developers. Dynamic and static tools can assist in this task. Our work aims to help Erlang developers in debugging processes to reproduce a runtime error. We would like to use and extend the static analyser framework of RefactorErl with new algorithms to support this fault localisation process. In our previous paper, we presented a symbolic execution-based analysis method to find the source of runtime errors. This paper extends that work with path selection heuristics to improve the efficiency of the algorithm in the RefactorErl framework.

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Acta Cybernetica
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2025-05-21
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https://doi.org/10.14232/actacyb.312432
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Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
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Selecting Execution Path for Replaying Errors

Melinda Tóth, István Bozó, Zsófia Erdei
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Selecting Execution Path for Replaying Errors

Melinda Tóth, István Bozó, Zsófia Erdei
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The identification of the sources of a runtime error is a common task for Erlang developers. Dynamic and static tools can assist in this task. Our work aims to help Erlang developers in debugging processes to reproduce a runtime error. We would like to use and extend the static analyser framework of RefactorErl with new algorithms to support this fault localisation process. In our previous paper, we presented a symbolic execution-based analysis method to find the source of runtime errors. This paper extends that work with path selection heuristics to improve the efficiency of the algorithm in the RefactorErl framework.

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