Finding failures by cluster analysis of execution profiles

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2001-May, Issue , 2001, Pages 339-348

  Dickinson, William ^a   Leon, David ^a   Podgurski, Andy ^a  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta testing; Cluster analysis; Multidimensional scaling; Observation based testing; Operational testing; Sofiware testing

Indexed keywords

BETA TESTING; CLUSTERINGS; FILTERING PROCEDURES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; OBSERVATION-BASED TESTING; OPERATIONAL TESTING; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING; SOFIWARE TESTING; TEST CASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SAMPLING;

EID: 0034997451     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2001.919107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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