An initial characterization of industrial graphical user interface systems

Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, ICST 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-20

  Brooks, Penelope ^a   Robinson, Brian ^a   Memon, Atif M ^b  

^a ABB INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL FLOWS; DATA ACCESS; GUI TESTING; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; NUMEROUS MODELS; OPEN SOURCE APPLICATION; REAL-WORLD; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODE CHANGES; SOURCE CODES;

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA HANDLING; DEFECTS; PHASE INTERFACES; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 67650101816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2009.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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