A new approach for software testability analysis

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 985-988

  Zhao, Liang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Measure; Software testability; Testing effectiveness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BETA DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM SLICING; SOFTWARE TESTABILITY; TESTING EFFECTIVENESS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34247104629     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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