Modeling the cost-benefits tradeoffs for regression testing techniques

Conference on Software Maintenance

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 204-213

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

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TESTING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REGRESSION TEST SELECTION TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 0036440679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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