Effective and scalable software compatibility testing

ISSTA'08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-73

  Yoon, Il Chul ^a   Sussman, Alan ^a   Memon, Atif ^a   Porter, Adam ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MIDDLEWARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TESTING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMPONENT BASED; CONFIGURATION SPACES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTATION; INTER DEPENDENCIES; MIDDLEWARE SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; NEW APPROACHES; SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITIES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TEST PLANS; TEST QUALITIES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 57449118477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390630.1390640     Document Type: Conference Paper

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