A multi-objective approach to testing resource allocation in modular software systems

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1148-1153

  Wang, Zai ^a   Tang, Ke ^a,b   Yao, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multi Objective Evolutionary Algorithm; Parallel Series Modular Software System; Software Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PLANNING; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACHES; MODULAR SOFTWARES; MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; NON-DOMINATED SORTING GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL-SERIES MODULAR SOFTWARE SYSTEM; RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TESTING PHASE;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 55849135213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4630941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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