Improving web application testing with user session data

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 49-59

  Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Karre, Srikanth ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS;

GLOBAL INFORMATION; USER SESSION DATA; WEB APPLICATION TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0037925531     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icse.2003.1201187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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