Economic perspectives in test automation: Balancing automated and manual testing with opportunity cost

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 85-91

  Ramler, Rudolf ^a   Wolfmaier, Klaus ^a  

^a SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTER HAGENBERG   (Austria)

Author keywords

automated testing; benefits and costs of automation; manual testing; testing economics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TESTING; BENEFITS AND COSTS; BENEFITS AND COSTS OF AUTOMATION; MANUAL TESTING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TESTING;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 77953566595     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1138929.1138946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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