An empirical evaluation of defect detection techniques

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 763-775

  Roper, Marc ^a   Wood, Murray ^a   Miller, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Code reading; Code review; Empirical study; Functional testing; Replication; Software testing; Structural testing

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR DETECTION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BOUNDARY VALUE ANALYSIS; CODE READING; EQUIVALENCE PARTITIONING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0031333098     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(97)00028-1     Document Type: Article

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