Differential testing: A new approach to change detection

ESEC/FSE'07: 6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering - Companion Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 549-552

  Evans, Robert B ^a   Savoia, Alberto ^a  

^a Agitar Software Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated test generation; Change impact analysis; Differential testing; Regression testing; Software maintenance; Test repair

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TEST GENERATION; CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL TESTING; REGRESSION TESTING; TEST REPAIR;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 37849053746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1295014.1295038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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