Towards the determination of typical failure patterns

SOQUA'07: Fourth International Workshop on Software Quality Assurance - In conjunction with the 6th ESEC/FSE Joint Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 90-93

  Schneckenburger, Christoph ^a   Mayer, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Failure location; Failure pattern; Failure causing input

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE RANDOM TESTING; FAILURE CAUSING INPUT; FAILURE PATTERN;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 41149154006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1295074.1295091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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