Recomputing coverage information to assist regression testing

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 452-469

  Chittimalli, Pavan Kumar ^a   Harrold, Mary Jean ^b  

^a TATA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTRE   (India)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Maintenance; Regression test selection; Regression testing; Testing

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS; RE-COMPUTING; REGRESSION TEST SELECTION; REGRESSION TESTING; TEST CASE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INSTRUMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TESTING;

EID: 68949214345     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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