ClassBench: A framework for automated class testing

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 573-597

  Hoffman, Daniel ^a   Strooper, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated testing; Class library; Object oriented

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SUBROUTINES; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

AUTOMATED TESTGRAPH TRAVERSAL; CLASS UNDER TEST (CUT) STATE; CLASSBENCH METHODOLOGY; TESTGRAPH EDITOR;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031140945     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199705)27:5<573::AID-SPE98>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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