An empirical comparison of two safe regression test selection techniques

Proceedings - 2003 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 195-204

  Frankl, P G ^a   Rothermel, G ^b   Sayre, K ^b   Vokolos, F I ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science; Costs; Fault detection; Information science; Performance evaluation; Safety; Software engineering; Software testing; Software tools

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; FAULT DETECTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY TESTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL - COMPARISONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REGRESSION TEST SELECTION; REGRESSION TESTING; SUPPORTING TOOL;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 18044368551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISESE.2003.1237978     Document Type: Conference Paper

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