Hierarchical GUI test case generation using automated planning

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 144-155

  Memon, Atif M ^a   Pollack, Martha E ^a   Soffa, Mary Lou ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR CORRECTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STATE ASSIGNMENT;

AUTOMATED PLANNING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TESTING; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; REGRESSION TESTING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MICROSOFT WORDPAD;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0035249240     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.908959     Document Type: Article

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