Test inspected unit or inspect unit tested code?

Proceedings - 1st International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-60

  Gupta, Atul ^a   Mote, Pankaj ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; WELL TESTING;

CODE INSPECTIONS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; TIME-CONSTRAINED; UNIT TESTING; USAGE SCENARIOS; VERIFICATION PROCESSES;

INSPECTION;

EID: 47949125207     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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