Selecting a cost-effective test case prioritization technique

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 185-210

  Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a   Kanduri, Satya ^a   Malishevsky, Alexey G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Regression testing; Test case prioritization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PRIORITIZATION TECHNIQUE; REGRESSION TESTING; TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 3142772245     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SQJO.0000034708.84524.22     Document Type: Article

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