Software testing with evolutionary strategies

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

Volumn 3943 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 50-65

  Alba, Enrique ^a   Chicano, J Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY (ES); FUNDAMENTAL ALGORITHMS; METAHEURISTIC; SOFTWARE TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745841913     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11751113_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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