The effect of code coverage on fault detection under different testing profiles

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Testing, A-MOST '05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Cai, Xia ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

code coverage; fault detection; software testing

Indexed keywords

CODE COVERAGE; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; COVERAGE METRICS; COVERAGE TESTING; EMPIRICAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FAULT COVERAGES; FUNCTIONAL TEST; FUNCTIONAL TESTING; HIGH QUALITY; KEY ISSUES; MUTATION TESTING; NORMAL OPERATIONS; RANDOM TESTING; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; TEST CASE; TEST SETS; TESTING PROFILE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ESTIMATION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 77953968085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083274.1083288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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