Establishing traceability links between unit test cases and units under test

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 209-218

  Rompaey, Bart Van ^a   Demeyer, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CALL GRAPHS; DESIGN CONVENTIONS; LEXICAL ANALYSIS; LOG MINING; RESOLUTION STRATEGY; SOURCE CODES; TEST CASE; TIME CONSUMING CODES; TRACEABILITY LINKS; UNIT TESTS; UNITS UNDER TESTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MINING;

TESTING;

EID: 67649861357     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2009.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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