Improving the quality of classification trees via restructuring

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 83-92

  Chen, T Y ^a   Poon, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Black Box Testing; Classification Tree; Combination Table; Software Quality; Software Testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION HIERARCHIES; CLASSIFICATION TREES; COMBINATION TABLE; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

BLACK-BOX TESTING;

EID: 0037764333     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.1996.566743     Document Type: Conference Paper

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