Utilising code smells to detect quality problems in TTCN-3 test suites

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4581 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 228-243

  Neukirchen, Helmut ^a   Bisanz, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b PRODYNA GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ERROR ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MAINTAINABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; USABILITY ENGINEERING; CODES (SYMBOLS); ODORS; REUSABILITY; TESTING;

QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY PROBLEMS; TTCN-3 CODE; TTCN-3 TEST SUITES; CODE SMELL; ERROR PRONES; INTERNAL QUALITY; LINES OF CODE; SOURCE CODES; TESTING AND TEST CONTROL NOTATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34548099259     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73066-8_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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