CRANE: Failure prediction, change analysis and test prioritization in practice - Experiences from windows

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 357-366

  Czerwonka, Jacek ^a   Das, Rajiv ^a   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b   Tarvo, Alex ^a   Teterev, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure Prediction; Software Reliability

Indexed keywords

CHANGE ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; FAILURE PREDICTION; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; LARGE SYSTEM; MICROSOFT; PRIORITIZATION; PRIORITIZATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; TEST CASE; WINDOWS VISTA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CRANES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79958757505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2011.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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