Jumble java byte code to measure the effectiveness of unit tests

Proceedings - Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques, TAIC PART-Mutation 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 169-175

  Irvine, Sean A ^a   Pavlinic, Tin ^a,b   Trigg, Leonard ^a   Cleary, John G ^a,b   Inglis, Stuart ^a   Utting, Mark ^b  

^a Reel Two   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; TESTING;

AGILE PROGRAMMING; BYTE CODES; CAN-TEST; CLASS LOADING; CO-EXISTENCE; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; JAVA BYTE CODES; JAVA CODES; MODIFIED CLASSES; MUTATION TESTING; OPEN SOURCES; SOURCE CONTROL; UNIT TESTING;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 48049083345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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