Mining software repositories to study co-evolution of production & test code

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 220-229

  Zaidman, Andy ^a   Van Rompaey, Bart ^b   Demeyer, Serge ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; VERIFICATION;

CO-EVOLUTION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 50649085728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2008.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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