Using component metadata to regression test component-based software

Software Testing Verification and Reliability

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 61-94

  Orso, Alessandro ^a   Do, Hyunsook ^b   Rothermel, Gregg ^b   Harrold, Mary Jean ^a   Rosenblum, David S ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Component metadata; Component based software; Regression test selection; Regression testing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METADATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT METADATA; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34249889628     PISSN: 09600833     EISSN: 10991689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stvr.344     Document Type: Article

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