Using decision trees to predict the certification result of a build

Proceedings - 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-198

  Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Ken, Zhang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CERTIFICATION PROCESS; MODIFIED SUBSYSTEMS; USABILITY TESTING;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 34547448565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2006.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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