Incorporating varying test costs and fault severities into test case prioritization

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2001-May, Issue , 2001, Pages 329-338

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault severity; Rate of fault detection; Regression testing; Test case prioritization; Test cost

Indexed keywords

COSTS; SOFTWARE TESTING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FAULT SEVERITIES; FAULTS DETECTION; PERFORMANCE; RATE OF FAULT DETECTION; REGRESSION TESTING; TEST CASE; TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION; TEST COST; TEST FAULTS; TESTING PROCESS; FAULT DETECTION; TEST COSTS;

FAULT DETECTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035017874     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2001.919106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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