On effectiveness of pairwise methodology for testing network-centric software

ITI 3rd International Conference on Information and Communications Technology, ICICT 2005 - Enabling Technologies for the New Knowledge Society

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 221-235

  Bell, Kera Z ^a   Vouk, Mladen A ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

N-WISE TESTING; NETWORK CENTRIC SOFTWARE; PARAMETRIC VALUE PAIRS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 33847694980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITICT.2005.1609626     Document Type: Conference Paper

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