An empirical study of profiling strategies for released software and their impact on testing activities

ISSTA 2004 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 65-75

  Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Hardojo, Madeline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Instrumentation; Profiling; Software deployment; Testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ERROR DETECTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRANSPARENCY;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INSTRUMENTATION; PROFILING; SOFTWARE DEPOLYMENT; TRADEOFFS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 16244415093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1013886.1007522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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