A measure of testing effort

Proceedings of the USENIX 1996 Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies, COOTS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  McGregor, John D ^a   Srinivas, Satyaprasad ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data State Collapse; Syntactic Semantic complexity; Testability

Indexed keywords

CLASS COMPLEXITY; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; PROJECT ESTIMATES; TEST OBJECT; TESTABILITY; TESTING EFFORT;

TESTING;

EID: 14344260116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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