Simplifying failure-inducing input

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

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 135-145

  Hildebrandt, Ralf ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated debugging; Combinatorial testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HTML; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WEB BROWSERS;

COMBINATORIAL TESTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 0034593018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/347636.348938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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