Leveraging user-session data to support web application testing

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-202

  Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a   Karre, Srikanth ^a   Fisher II, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Software testing; Test data generation; Web applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TESTING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HTML; QUERY LANGUAGES; SERVERS; WEBSITES;

SOFTWARE TESTING; TEST DATA GENERATION; WEB APPLICATIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21244487905     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.36     Document Type: Article

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