Pursuing failure: The distribution of program failures in a profile space

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 246-255

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

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive sampling; Cluster analysis; Cluster filtering; Failure pursuit sampling; Multivariate data analysis; Observation based testing; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; DATA REDUCTION; RELIABILITY; SET THEORY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035783436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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