A critical analysis of empirical research in software testing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Briand, Lionel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FAULT DETECTION; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SOFTWARE DEPENDABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING TECHNIQUES; TESTING TECHNIQUES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 47949127868     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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