Hybridizing evolutionary testing with artificial immune systems and local search

2008 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-220

  Liaskos, Konstantinos ^a   Roper, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DIESEL ENGINES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMMUNOLOGY; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

AIS ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS; CLONAL SELECTION; DATA FLOWS; EVOLUTIONARY TESTING; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GA); GLOBAL SEARCH; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; JAVA CLASSES; LOCAL SEARCH; TEST DATA GENERATION; TEST SCENARIOS; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 52249102251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2008.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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