An empirical study on bayesian network-based approach for test case prioritization

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 278-287

  Mirarab, Siavash ^a   Tahvildari, Ladan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FAULT DETECTION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 50649115541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2008.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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