How to Cite

If you have used FauxPy in your research and would like to cite it, please refer to the following studies.

Technical Report

The technical report FauxPy: A Fault Localization Tool for Python presents FauxPy in detail, including its implementation, architecture, and instructions for use. You can cite this technical report as follows:

@misc{PythonFL-FauxPy-Tool,
  title={{FauxPy}: A Fault Localization Tool for {P}ython},
  author={Mohammad Rezaalipour and Carlo A. Furia},
  year={2024},
  eprint={2404.18596},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.SE},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18596}
}

Empirical Study

The paper An Empirical Study of Fault Localization in Python Programs presents an empirical study where we applied FauxPy to 135 bugs across 13 real-world Python programs from the curated collection BugsInPy. This paper is published in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal. You can cite this empirical work as follows:

@article{Rezaalipour:2024,
  title={An empirical study of fault localization in {P}ython programs},
  author={Rezaalipour, Mohammad and Furia, Carlo A.},
  journal={Empirical Software Engineering},
  volume={29},
  number={4},
  pages={92},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Springer}
}