Empirical studies of test case prioritization in a JUnit testing environment

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 113-124

  Do, Hyunsook ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a   Kinneer, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APACHE JAKARTA (CO); JUNIT; PRIORITIZATION; SOURCEFORGE (CO);

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 16244385003     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2004.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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