Code coverage testing using hardware performance monitoring support

Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Automated and Analysis-Driven Debugging, AADEBUG 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 159-163

  Shye, Alex ^a   Iyer, Matthew ^a   Reddi, Vijay Janapa ^a   Connors, Daniel A ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Code coverage; Hardware performance monitoring; Software testing

Indexed keywords

CODE COVERAGE; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE MONITORING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CODES (STANDARDS);

EID: 29844431607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1085130.1085151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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