Adaptive testing of software components

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1463-1469

  Cai, Kai Yuan ^a   Chen, T Y ^b   Li, Yong Chao ^a   Ning, Wei Yi ^a   Yu, Y T ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adaptive testing; Controlled markov chain; Software component; Software cybernetics; Software testing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); CYBERNETICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TEST FACILITIES;

ADAPTIVE TESTING; CONTROLLED MARKOV CHAIN (CMC); SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE CYBERNETICS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33644554130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1067011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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