Empirical observations on software testing automation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 201-209

  Karhu, Katja ^a   Repo, Tiina ^a   Taipale, Ossi ^a   Smolander, Kari ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS METHODS; GROUNDED THEORY; TESTING AUTOMATION;

AUTOMATION; REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 67650154732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2009.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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