Integrating approximation methods with the generalised proportional sampling strategy

Proceedings - 6th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 598-605

  Chen, T Y ^a,b   Wong, P K ^a   Yu, Y T ^c  

^a HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

partition testing; random testing; software testing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

APPROXIMATION METHODS; EQUAL PROBABILITY; PARTITION TESTING; PROPORTIONAL SAMPLING STRATEGIES; RANDOM TESTING; SUB-DOMAINS; TEST CASE;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 0004014428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.1999.809655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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