Quantifying the effectiveness of testing via efficient residual path profiling

6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 545-548

  Chilimbi, Trishul M ^a   Nori, Aditya V ^a   Vaswani, Kapil ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Inter procedural; Path profiling; Residual; Testing

Indexed keywords

PATH PROFILING; REGRESSION TEST SUITES; COMPLEX SOFTWARES; EDGE PROFILING; INTER-PROCEDURAL; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATIONS; REGRESSION SUITES; REGRESSION TESTS; RESIDUAL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS; USAGE SCENARIOS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 57149127937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1287624.1287706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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