On the effectiveness of unit test automation at microsoft

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-89

  Williams, Laurie ^a   Kudrjavets, Gunnar ^b   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED UNITS; DEVELOPMENT TIME; ECONOMIC VALUES; MICROSOFT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; UNIT TESTING; UNIT TESTS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TESTING;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77951449202     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2009.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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