Improving test suites for efficient fault localization

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 82-91

  Baudry, Benoit ^a   Fleurey, Franck ^a   Le Traon, Yves ^b  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Mutation analysis; Test generation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOCK CODES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DIAGNOSIS ACCURACY; FAULT LOCALIZATION; MUTATION ANALYSIS; TEST GENERATION;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247095930     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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