Adaptive random test case prioritization

ASE2009 - 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 233-244

  Jiang, Bo ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Chan, W K ^b   Tse, T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adaptive random testing; Test case prioritization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RANDOM TESTING; PRIORITIZATION; RANDOM SELECTION; RANDOM TESTING; RANDOM TESTS; REGRESSION TESTING; TEST CASE; TEST CASE PRIORITIZATION; TIME COST; UNIT TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 77952123669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2009.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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