An effective fault localization approach for Verilog based on enhanced contexts

Zhuo ZHANG, Ya LI, Lei XIA, Jianxin XUE, Jiang WU, Xiaoguang MAO

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Front. Comput. Sci. ›› 2024, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5) : 185108. DOI: 10.1007/s11704-024-2622-6
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Zhuo ZHANG, Ya LI, Lei XIA, Jianxin XUE, Jiang WU, Xiaoguang MAO. An effective fault localization approach for Verilog based on enhanced contexts. Front. Comput. Sci., 2024, 18(5): 185108 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-024-2622-6

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This work was partially supported by the Guangdong Province Ordinary University Characteristic Innovation Project (2023KTSCX193).

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