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Technical Note: Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software
Proceedings of IEEE Information Visualization 2001
October 2001
James Eagan, Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, and John Stasko
Abstract
Large test suites are frequently used to evaluate
software systems and to locate errors.
Unfortunately, this process can generate a huge amount of data that is
difficult to interpret manually. We have created a system, {\sc
Tarantula}, that visually encodes test data to help find
program errors. The system uses a principled color mapping to
represent source lines in passed and failed
tests.
It also provides a flexible user interface for examining different
perspectives that show the behavior of the source code on test sets,
ranging from individual tests, to important subsets such as the set of
failed tests, to the entire test suite.
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