On regression testing of object-oriented programs

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-40

  Kung, David C ^a   Gao, Jerry ^a   Hsia, Pei ^a   Toyoshima, Yasufumi ^b   Chen, Cris ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

OBJECT RELATION GRAPH; REGRESSION TESTING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0029774306     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0164-1212(95)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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