Studying the characteristics of a "Good" GUI test suite

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 159-168

  Xie, Qing ^a   Memon, Atif M ^a  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GUI TESTING; TEST SUITES;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; FAULT DETECTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34547683459     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2006.45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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