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Analysis of five developers in the Eclipse projects shows overall consistency with project-level bug fix pattern frequencies, as well as distinct variations among developers in their rates of producing various bug patterns. Overall, data in the paper suggest that developers have difficulty with specific code situations at surprisingly consistent rates. There appear to be broad mechanisms causing the injection of bugs that are largely independent of the type of software being produced.

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Tokyo, Japan. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering. Enlarge the bugs on the worksheet, one to a sheet, for display. Pattern mining techniques are also useful for determining bugs in the execution of software in sensor networks. These bug finding tools adopt a horizontal approach , using techniques that are applicable across all projects.

To date , there are very few tools Students were then classified , using the rule space methodology Tatsuoka , , according to which bug pattern their responses The arguments to an overloaded method such as foo are passed to another method such as bar that takes more general types.

Because the static types of these arguments inside the scope of bar are more general, the wrong version of method foo might be invoked. Errors like these can be difficult to diagnose because they can be introduced simply by adding new methods as opposed to modifying existing ones.

Also, the program execution may continue for some time before problems are discovered. The Symptoms To illustrate the nature of this pattern, let's consider the following example code originally Chapter 9 :. Recall that we implemented linked lists as containers for these immutable lists. But now let's suppose that we're implementing linked lists in a separate package in which we know that all instances of class LinkedList will be lists of Strings.

We could write the constructors to enforce this invariant as follows:. Suppose we write this code and all the test cases work. Or, more realistically, let's suppose that the code doesn't work at first, but that we manage to get it working after a few debugging cycles. Perhaps several months later you develop a new constructor on class Cons that takes a String representation of the list as its only argument Appendix A contains some sample code that illustrates this.

Such a constructor is quite useful—it allows us to construct new lists with expressions such as the following:. So, we write this constructor and all the test cases for it work.

But then we notice that some of the tests for methods on class LinkedList suddenly break. What's going on? The Cause The problem is with the constructor on class LinkedList that takes a single String as its argument.

This constructor previously called the underlying constructor on class Cons. But now that we've overloaded that constructor with a more specific method, one that takes a String as an argument, this more specific method is invoked.

Unless the String passed to the LinkedList constructor is a valid representation of a Cons , the program will crash when trying to parse it.

Worse yet, if that String does happen to be a valid representation of a Cons , the program will continue to execute with corrupt data. In that case, we would have introduced a saboteur into the data see Chapter