Automated generation and evaluation of dataflow-based test data for object-oriented software

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3712 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 212-226

  Oster, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated test data generation; Dataflow; Evolutionary algorithms; Mutation testing; Object oriented software; Testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATED TEST DATA GENERATION; MUTATION TESTING; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646174030     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11558569_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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