Evolutionary functional testing

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3144-3160

  Bühler, Oliver ^a   Wegener, Joachim ^b  

^a STZ Softwaretechnik   (Germany)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automotive systems; Evolutionary functional testing; Evolutionary testing; Functional testing; Software testing; Testing process

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

FUNCTIONAL TESTING; PREMIUM VEHICLES; RANDOM TEST CASE SELECTION; SOFTWARE BASED SYSTEMS; TESTING PROCESS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 40249084207     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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