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On Exploiting Passing and Failing Test Cases in Debugging Hardware Description Languages

Authors:
Bernhard Peischl
Naveed Riaz
Franz Wotawa

Keywords: software debugging, debugging of hardware desciption languages, fault isolation

Abstract:
In this manuscript, we outline how to use test suites for software debugging of hardware description languages. We propose an algorithmic improvement for dealing with numerous failing test cases and show how to exploit passing test cases in terms of a technique called filtering. We report on results obtained on a well-known benchmark suite. The results clearly show that both passing and failing tests are capable of increasing the diagnoses accuracy in the field of software debugging.

Pages: 289 to 301

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2014. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2014

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2628