An empirical comparison of test suite reduction techniques for user-session-based testing of web applications

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 587-600

  Sprenkle, Sara ^a   Sampath, Sreedevi ^a   Gibson, Emily ^a   Pollock, Lori ^a   Souter, Amie ^b  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION CAPABILITY; REAL USER DATA; TEST SUITE REDUCTION; WEB APPLICATIONS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DATA PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33646950015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2005.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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