Unit testing in practice

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 3-13

  Ellims, Michael ^a   Bridges, James ^a   Ince, Darrel C ^b  

^a Pi Technology   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC METHODS; SENSORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARDWARE IN THE LOOP (HIL); TEST HARNESS GENERATORS (THG); UNIT TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 16244417502     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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