An evaluation of two bug pattern tools for Java

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 248-257

  Wagner, Stefan ^a   Deissenboeck, Florian ^a   Aichner, Michael ^b   Wimmer, Johann ^c   Schwalb, Markus ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Beck et al   (Germany)

^c Cirquent GmbH   (Germany)

^d Mobilex AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS; STATIC ANALYSIS; VERIFICATION;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PATTERN TOOLS; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 50549089646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2008.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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