An object-based data flow testing approach for web applications

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 157-179

  Liu, Chien Hung ^a   Kung, David C ^a   Hsia, Pei ^a   Hsu, Chih Tung ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data flow test model; Data flow testing; Software testing; Web application testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; HTML; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA FLOW TEST MODEL; DATA FLOW TESTING; SOFTWARE TESTING; WEB APPLICATION TESTING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0346509146     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194001000499     Document Type: Article

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