Test suite reduction with selective redundancy

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 549-558

  Jeffrey, Dennis ^a   Gupta, Neelam ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; SELECTIVE REDUNDANCY; TEST SUITE REDUCTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; REDUCTION; REDUNDANCY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33646942742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2005.88     Document Type: Conference Paper

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