Efficient instrumentation for code coverage testing

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2002 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 86-96

  Tikir, Mustafa M ^a   Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Code Coverage; Dominator Tree; Dynamic Code Deletion; Dynamic Code Patching; On Demand Instrumentation; Testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

CODE COVERAGE;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 0036980218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566172.566186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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