Genes and bacteria for automatic test cases optimization in the.NET environment

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 195-206

  Baudry, Benoit ^a   Fleurey, Franck ^b   Jezequel, Jean Marc ^a   Le Traon, Yves ^a  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b IFSIC   (France)

Author keywords

Animals; Automatic testing; Computer aided software engineering; Fault detection; Genetic algorithms; Genetic mutations; Microorganisms; Software quality; Software testing; System testing

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC TESTING; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER TESTING; FAULT DETECTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MICROORGANISMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

CROSSOVER OPERATOR; GENETIC MUTATIONS; MUTATION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SYSTEM TESTING; TEST CASE; TEST OPTIMIZATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 17644367665     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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