An empirical study of incorporating cost into test suite reduction and prioritization

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 461-467

  Smith, Adam M ^a   Kapfhammer, Gregory M ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b Allegheny College   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Prioritization; Reduction; Regression testing

Indexed keywords

CODE COVERAGE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION METRICS; EXECUTION TIME; IS COSTS; OPTIMAL GREEDY ALGORITHM; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION TESTING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TEST COST; TEST SUITE REDUCTION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST REDUCTION;

TESTING;

EID: 72949091655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529382     Document Type: Conference Paper

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