Managing conflicts when using combination strategies to test software

Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-264

  Grindal, Mats ^a   Offutt, Jeff ^b   Mellin, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

INPUT PARAMETER MODELS; PARAMETER VALUES; POTENTIAL TEST CASES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34548142913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASWEC.2007.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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