Chianti: A tool for change impact analysis of java programs

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 432-448

  Ren, Xiaoxia ^a   Shah, Fenil ^b   Tip, Frank ^c   Ryder, Barbara G ^a   Chesley, Ophelia ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of object oriented programs; Change impact analysis; Regression test; Unit test

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA REDUCTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANALYSIS OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMS; CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION TESTS; SOFTWARE TOOL - CHIANTI; UNIT TESTS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 17044394341     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1035292.1029012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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