Relationships between test suites, faults, and fault detection in GUI testing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 12-21

  Strecker, Jaymie ^a   Memon, Atif M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAULT DETECTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; TESTING TECHNIQUES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 50649090280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2008.26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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