A simple coverage-based locator for multiple faults

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 366-375

  Steimann, Friedrich ^a   Bertschler, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^b V8tech ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT LOCALIZATION; FAULT LOCATION; FAULT LOCATOR; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; MULTIPLE FAULTS; SOURCE CODES; TEST CASE; TEST COVERAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ELECTRIC FAULT LOCATION; LOCATION; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 67650161988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2009.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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