Empirical investigation of the effects of test suite properties on similarity-based test case selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 327-336

  Hemmati, Hadi ^a   Arcuri, Andrea ^a   Briand, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive Random Testing; Distance Function; Genetic Algorithms; Model Based Testing; Similarity Measure; Test Case Selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RANDOM TESTING; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; MODEL BASED TESTING; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TEST CASE SELECTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INDUSTRY; MODEL CHECKING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79958718295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2011.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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