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Tue 10 Nov 2020 08:37 - 08:38 at Virtual room 2 - Developer Support 1

In software development and maintenance, defect localization is necessary for software quality assurance. Current defect localization techniques mainly rely on defect symptoms (e.g., bug reports or program spectrum) when the defect has been exposed. One challenge task is: can we locate buggy program prior to the appearance of the defect symptom. Such kind of localization is conducted at an early stage (e.g., when buggy program elements are being checked-in) which can be an early step of continuous quality control.

In this paper, we propose a \textbf{\underline{J}}ust-\textbf{\underline{I}}n-\textbf{\underline{T}}ime defect identification and l\textbf{\underline{O}}calization tool, named JITO, which can help developers to locate defective lines at check-in time. In summary, JITO contains two phases: (i) identify if a new change is buggy and (ii) locate suspicious buggy code lines in the identified buggy changes. We implement JITO as a plugin in an integrated development environment (i.e., Intellij IDEA). When developers using our plugin, JITO loads the local Git repository to build the JIT defect identification model and localization model based on historical changes. After submitting a new change to the local repository, developers apply JITO to identify whether it is a buggy change. If a buggy change is identified, JITO leverages JIT defect localization model to locate its suspicious buggy lines and highlight them in Intellij IDEA. Experimental results show that JITO outperforms two baselines (i.e., random guess and a static bug finder (i.e., PMD)) by a substantial margin in terms of four ranking measures.

Demo URL: \url{https://youtu.be/tvnYs62FkEQ}

Plugin download: \url{https://git.io/Jf5r1}

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JITO: A Tool for Just-in-Time Defect Identification and Localization
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Fangcheng Qiu Zhejiang University, China, Meng Yan Chongqing University, Xin Xia Monash University, Xinyu Wang Zhejiang University, Yuanrui Fan Zhejiang University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University, David Lo Singapore Management University
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