The effectiveness of refactoring, based on a compatibility testing taxonomy and a dependency graph

Proceedings - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques, TAIC PART 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 181-190

  Counsell, S ^a   Hierons, R M ^a   Najjar, R ^b   Loizou, G ^b   Hassoun, Y ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; DEPENDENCY GRAPHS; INTER-DEPENDENCES; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; REFACTORINGS; TEST SETS;

RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

TAXONOMIES;

EID: 36248955015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TAIC-PART.2006.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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