Insights on fault interference for programs with multiple bugs

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 165-174

  Debroy, Vidroha ^a   Wong, W Eric ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault interference; Fault localization; Multiple faults; Software testing

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT LOCALIZATION; MULTIPLE FAULTS; ONE-FORM; SIEMENS; SINGLE FAULT; TEST CASE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77951440472     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2009.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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