Prioritization of regression tests using singular value decomposition with empirical change records

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 81-90

  Sherriff, Mark ^a,b   Lake, Mike ^a   Williams, Laurie ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FOOD PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TESTING;

CASE STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION TESTING; SINGULAR VALUES; SOFTWARE CHANGES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS; TEST CASES; TEST RUNS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 47349133714     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2007.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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