On the statistical properties of the F-measure

Proceedings - Fourth International Conference on Quality Software, QSIC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 146-153

  Chen, Tsong Yueh ^a   Kuo, Fei Ching ^a   Merkel, Robert ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive random testing; F measure; Quality measurement; Random testing; Software testing; Testing effectiveness metric

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ADAPTIVE RANDOM TESTING; F-MEASURE; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; RANDOM TESTING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING EFFECTIVENESS METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 14044266314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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