How well do test case prioritization techniquessupport statistical fault localization

Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 99-106

  Jiang, Bo ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Tse, T H ^a   Chen, T Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuous integration; Fault localization; Software process integration; Test case prioritization

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS INTEGRATION; TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATION; TESTING; WORD PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70449637968     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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