Inspecting automated test code: A preliminary study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4536 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 115-122

  Lanubile, Filippo ^a   Mallardo, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated testing; Empirical study; Pair programming; Refactoring; Software inspection; Unit test

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE PROCESS; PAIR PROGRAMMING; PRODUCTION CODE; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE INSPECTIONS; UNIT TEST;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 38149003821     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73101-6_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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