Effectively prioritizing tests in development environment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 97-106

  Srivastava, Amitabh ^a   Thiagarajan, Jay ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Regression testing; Software testing; Test minimization; Test prioritization; Test selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036983191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566172.566187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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