Enhancing software testing by judicious use of code coverage information

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 612-620

  Berner, Stefan ^a   Weber, Roland ^b   Keller, Rudolf K ^b  

^a SWISS NATIONAL BANK   (Switzerland)

^b ZÜHLKE ENGINEERING AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INFORMATION USE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

AUTOMATED TESTS; CODE COVERAGE INFORMATION; TEST QUALITY;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34548735960     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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