Test redundancy measurement based on coverage information: Evaluations and lessons learned

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 220-229

  Koochakzadeh, Negar ^a   Garousi, Vahid ^a   Maurer, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LESSONS LEARNED; MAINTENANCE COST; MEASUREMENT-BASED; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; TEST CASE; TEST MINIMIZATIONS; TEST SUITE REDUCTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

TESTING;

EID: 67650148487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2009.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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