A technique for the selective revalidation of OO software

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 217-233

  Hsia, Pei ^a   Li, Xiaolin ^a   Kung, David Chenho ^a   Hsu, Chih Tung ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Toyoshima, Yasufumi ^b   Chen, Cris ^b  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptance testing; Class firewall; Object orientated software testing; Regression testing; Software maintenance; Software validation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031189209     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199707/08)9:4<217::aid-smr152>3.0.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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