A pareto ant colony algorithm applied to the class integration and test order problem

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6435 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 16-29

  Da Veiga Cabral, Rafael ^a   Pozo, Aurora ^a   Vergilio, Silvia Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

ant colony algorithm; Integration testing; multi objective; object oriented software

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONIES; ANT COLONY ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION TESTING; INTEGRATION TESTS; MULTI OBJECTIVE; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; ORDER PROBLEMS; TEST ORDERINGS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COST FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; INTEGRATION TESTING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78649850380     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16573-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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