Does the fault reside in a stack trace? Assisting crash localization by predicting crashing fault residence.

•An approach for predicting whether a crashing fault resides in a stack trace.•A learning model based on 89 features from stack traces and source code.•Empirical evaluation on crashes from 7 open-source projects, with accuracy of 92%.•Able to reduce the search space of crashing faults and assist crash localization.