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Bisection (software engineering)

Bisection is a method used in software development to identify change sets that result in a specific behavior change. It is mostly employed for finding the patch that introduced a bug. Another application area is finding the patch that indirectly fixed a bug.

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Bisection method

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Bisection (software engineering)

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Avg. degree1.94
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bisection search change code changeset changesets space specific algorithm bug revision control test behavior finding patch method one could cause

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a pass/fail testinstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text
this means that it only changes once across all changesets between the startinstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text
end of the search space.If there are multiple changesets across the search space where the behavior being tested changes between falseinstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text
trueinstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text
then the bisection algorithm will find one of theminstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text
but it will not necessarily be the root cause of the change in behavior between the startinstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text
the end of the search spaceinstance ofFor a Boolean function0.80text

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