Assessing IRPS as an efficient pairwise test data generation strategy

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-104

  Younis, Mohammed I ^a   Zamli, Kamal Z ^a   Klaib, Mohammad F J ^a   Che Soh, Zainal Hisham ^a   Che Abdullah, Syahrul Afzal ^a   Mat Isa, Nor Ashidi ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Pairwise testing; Software testing; Test automation; Test planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349090445     PISSN: 17550386     EISSN: 17550394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2010.029443     Document Type: Article

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