Capture-recapture in software unit testing - A case study

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 32-40

  Scott, Hanna ^a   Wohlin, Claes ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Failures; Faults; Prediction; Unit test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; FAILURES; FAULTS; PREDICTION; UNIT TEST;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 62949156827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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