A scalable approach to user-session based testing of web applications through concept analysis

Proceedings - 19th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 132-141

  Sampath, Sreedevi ^a   Mihaylov, Valentin ^b   Souter, Amie ^b   Pollock, Lori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT ANALYSIS; URL; WEB-BASED ANALYSIS; WHITEBOX TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MARKETING; PROBABILITY; ROBOTS; SERVERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 15844383149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2004.1342731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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