Combinatorial interaction regression testing: A study of test case generation and prioritization

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 255-264

  Qu, Xiao ^a   Cohen, Myra B ^a   Woolf, Katherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL INTERACTION TESTING; COST-EFFICIENT; INPUT PARAMETERS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAINTENANCE PROCESSES; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION TESTING; REGRESSION TESTING TECHNIQUES; SINGLE VERSION SOFTWARE; TEST CASE GENERATION; TEST CASES; TEST GENERATIONS; TEST SETS; TEST SUITES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAULT DETECTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FOOD PROCESSING; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 47349111813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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