Compatibility and regression testing of COTS-component-based software

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-94

  Mariani, Leonardo ^a   Papagiannakis, Sofia ^a   Pezzè, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL MODELS; INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34548747487     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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