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Software engineering

executions in which a fault is reached but the output is still correct, which weakens fault localization.

In software engineering, coincidental correctness refers to executions in which a fault is reached but the output is still correct, which weakens fault localization. This meaning comes from Masri (2014) in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.[1]

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fault3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs still1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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Masri, W., & Assi, R. A. (2014). Prevalence of coincidental correctness and mitigation of its impact on fault localization. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 23(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559932

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