IDENTIFYING ROOT CAUSES OF SOFTWARE DEFECTS

Root cause identification of a software defect includes identifying, in program code of a software feature, hedge code of the software feature based on errors induced from temporarily substituting program code of the software feature with substitute program code and obtaining an error graph for the hedge code, obtaining error logs of an application that incorporates the software feature, the error logs indicating errors with the software feature of the application, automatically generating an application error graph reflective of the errors with the software feature of the application, mapping the application error graph to the error graph for the hedge code, and based on the mapping aligning one of more errors reflected in the application error graph to error(s) reflected in the error graph for the hedge code, identifying the hedge code as inducing a root error identified in the application error graph.