Exploiting hardware advances for software testing and debugging (NIER track)

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 888-891

  Soffa, Mary Lou ^a   Walcott, Kristen R ^a   Mars, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

branch testing; fault localization; performance monitoring

Indexed keywords

BRANCH TESTING; FAULT LOCALIZATION; HARDWARE MECHANISM; KEY FACTORS; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; STRUCTURAL TESTS; TESTING AND DEBUGGING;

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HARDWARE; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79959884555     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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