Detecting increases in feature coupling using regression tests

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 163-174

  Giroux, Olivier ^a   Robillard, Martin P ^b  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Feature associations; Feature coupling; Feature implementation; Feature location; Regression testing

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BUG FIXES; FEATURE ASSOCIATIONS; FEATURE COUPLING; FEATURE IMPLEMENTATION; FEATURE LOCATION; REGRESSION TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34547365183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1181775.1181795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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