Estimating the coverage of the framework application reusable cluster-based test cases

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 595-604

  Al Dallal, Jehad ^a,b   Sorenson, Paul ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case study; Cluster testing; Framework interface classes; Hooks; Object oriented framework; Object oriented framework application; Reusable test cases

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

DESIGN REUSABILITY; REUSABLE TEST CASES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 40849094828     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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