Searching for cognitively diverse tests: Towards universal test diversity metrics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 178-186

  Feldt, Robert ^a   Torkar, Richard ^a   Gorschek, Tony ^a   Afzal, Wasif ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TESTING; VERIFICATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIVERSITY METRICS; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OBJECT-ORIENTED; OPTIMAL DIVERSITY; OPTIMAL METRIC; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; QUALITY OF TESTING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEST AUTOMATION; TEST CASES; UNIVERSAL TEST; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 52249109609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2008.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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