Automating the mutation testing of aspect-oriented Java programs

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-58

  Ferrari, Fabiano Cutigi ^a   Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi ^a   Rashid, Awais ^b   Maldonado, José Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspect Oriented Programming; Mutation testing; Test automation; Testing tools

Indexed keywords

ASPECT-ORIENTED; ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMS; JAVA PROGRAM; MUTATION TESTING; REAL SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE FAULT; TEST AUTOMATION; TEST CYCLES; TESTING TOOLS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77954947475     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1808266.1808274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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