Data coverage testing of programs for container classes

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 183-194

  Netisopakul, Ponrudee ^a   White, Lee ^a   Morris, John ^b   Hoffman, Daniel ^c  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automatic testing; Computer science; Containers; Data analysis; Fault detection; Libraries; Random number generation; Software engineering; Software reliability; System testing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TESTING; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER TESTING; CONTAINERS; DATA REDUCTION; FAULT DETECTION; LIBRARIES; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

AUTOMATED TEST GENERATIONS; DATA COVERAGE; DATA SET SIZE; RANDOM GENERATION; STATEMENT COVERAGE; SYSTEM TESTING; TEST MODELING; TESTING STRATEGIES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 15244364145     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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