Mutation of Java objects

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 341-351

  Alexander, Roger T ^a   Bieman, James M ^a   Ghosh, Sudipto ^a   Ji, Bixia ^a  

^a Colorado State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science; Genetic mutations; Java; Probability; Software libraries; Software measurement; Software testing; Software tools; System testing; Writing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TECHNICAL WRITING;

GENETIC MUTATIONS; JAVA; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT; SYSTEM TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 20844461220     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173285     Document Type: Conference Paper

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