Regression testing in the presence of non-code changes

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, ICST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 21-30

  Nanda, Agastya ^a   Mani, Senthil ^b   Sinha, Saurabh ^b   Harrold, Mary Jean ^c   Orso, Alessandro ^c  

^a JAYPEE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODE COMPONENTS; CONFIGURATION FILES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; MODIFIED SOFTWARE; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; REGRESSION TEST SELECTION; REGRESSION TESTING; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TEST CASE; TEST SELECTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79958696720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2011.60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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