A memetic algorithm for test data generation of object-oriented software

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2048-2055

  Arcuri, Andrea ^a   Yao, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMETIC ALGORITHMS; SEARCH SPACE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 69749121484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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