Checking inside the black box: Regression testing based on value spectra differences

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 28-37

  Xie, Tao ^a   Notkin, David ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BEHAVIOR DEVIATIONS; REGRESSION TESTING; STRUCTURAL PROGRAM SPECTRA; VALUE SPECTRA DIFFERENCES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 18044382110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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