Improving evolutionary class testing in the presence of non-public methods

ASE'07 - 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 381-384

  Wappler, Stefan ^a   Schieferdecker, Ina ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

encapsulation; evolutionary testing; object orientation; unit testing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEARCHES; CLASS INVARIANTS; CLASS TESTING; CLASS UNDER TESTS; CODE COVERAGE; EVOLUTIONARY TESTING; OBJECT-ORIENTATION; OBJECT-ORIENTED UNIT TESTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; REAL-WORLD TESTS; REFACTORINGS; SEARCH SPACES; TEST GENERATIONS; UNIT TESTING;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

TESTING;

EID: 77953983075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321631.1321689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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