The Csaw C mutation tool: Initial results

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 185-189

  Ellims, Michael ^a   Ince, Darrel ^a   Petre, Marian ^a  

^a Pi Shurlok/OpenUniversity ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION; LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BOOLEAN VALUES; C LANGUAGE; CPU TIME; SORTING ALGORITHMS; TEST SETS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 48049120185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TAICPART.2007.4344123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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