Industrial scaled automated structural testing with the evolutionary testing tool

ICST 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 175-184

  Vos, Tanja E J ^c   Baars, Arthur I ^c   Lindlar, Felix F ^b   Kruse, Peter M ^a   Windisch, Andreas ^b   Wegener, Joachim ^a  

^a Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computation; Industrial practice; Structural testing; Test automation; Test data generation

Indexed keywords

DATA GENERATION; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; STRUCTURAL TESTING; TEST AUTOMATION;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 77954493615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2010.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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