Prioritzing test cases for regression testing

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2000 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 102-112

  Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Malishevsky, Alexey G ^b   Rothermel, Gregg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FEEDBACK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FAULT DETECTION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034592889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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