Identifying modules which do not propagate errors

Proceedings - 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 185-193

  Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Allen, Edward B ^a   Tang, Wai Hong ^a   Michael, Christoph C ^b   Voas, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cigital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GAMES; ERRORS; LOCATION; RANDOM ERRORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATION INTENSIVES; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; FAULT INJECTION; PROPAGATION OF ERROR; RANDOM TESTING; SOFTWARE MODULES; SOFTWARE PRODUCT METRICS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 0006853501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSET.1999.756768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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