A comparative study of coarse- and fine-grained safe regression test-selection techniques

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-183

  Bible, John ^b   Rothermel, Gregg ^b   Rosenblum, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; D.2.5 software engineering : Testing and debugging; Regression test selection; Regression testing; Verification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000699907     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/367008.367015     Document Type: Article

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