The impact of software evolution on code coverage information

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 170-179

  Elbaum, Sebastian ^a   Gable, David ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE COVERAGE INFORMATION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77956619691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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