Evolutionary testing of classes

ISSTA 2004 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-128

  Tonella, Paolo ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated test case generation; Genetic algorithms; Object Oriented testing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

AUTOMATED TESTS CASE GENERATION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EVOLUTIONARY TESTING; METHOD INVOCATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 23744485743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1013886.1007528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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