Using machine learning to refine black-box test specifications and test suites

Proceedings - International Conference on Quality Software

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 135-144

  Briand, Lionel C ^a   Labiche, Yvan ^b   Bawar, Zaheer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; REFINING; ROBOT LEARNING; SPECIFICATIONS; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING;

BLACK BOXES; BLACK-BOX TESTING; CASE STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MACHINE-LEARNING; OPEN-SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY SOFTWARE; RE-ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; TEST SPECIFICATIONS; TEST SUITES; TOOL SUPPORTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 52449124147     PISSN: 15506002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QSIC.2008.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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