An innovative approach to tackling the boundary effect in adaptive random testing

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chen, T Y ^a   Tse, T H ^b   Huang, De Hao ^a   Yang, Zongyuan ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADAPTIVE RANDOM TESTING (ART); BOUNDARY EFFECTS; FAILURE-CAUSING INPUTS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 39749129927     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2007.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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