Repairing GUI test suites using a genetic algorithm

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 245-254

  Huang, Si ^a   Cohen, Myra B ^a   Memon, Atif M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED FUNCTIONAL TESTING; EVENT SEQUENCE; GRAPH MODEL; RANDOM ALGORITHMS; TEST CASE; TEST SEQUENCE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; REPAIR; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION;

EID: 77954494484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2010.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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