A comparative study on automated software test oracle methods

4th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2009, Includes SEDES 2009: Simposio para Estudantes de Doutoramento em Engenharia de Software

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 140-145

  Shahamiri, Seyed Reza ^a   Kadir, Wan Mohd Nasir Wan ^a   Mohd Hashim, Siti Zaiton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Automated software testing; Automated test oracle; Expected output generation; Software engineering; Software testing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SOFTWARE TESTING; AUTOMATED TEST; AUTOMATED TEST ORACLE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EXPECTED OUTPUT GENERATION; GENERATION METHOD; SOFTWARE BEHAVIOR; SOFTWARE FAULT; SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION; SOFTWARE TEST; TEST AUTOMATION; TEST ORACLES;

AUTOMATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 70749138265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSEA.2009.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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