Better testing through oracle selection (NIER track)

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 892-895

  Staats, Matt ^a   Whalen, Michael W ^a   Heimdahl, Mats P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical studies; test oracles

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION UNDER TESTS; CURRENT TESTING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT FINDING; TEST INPUTS; TEST ORACLES; TESTING PROCESS; YIELD IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79959899445     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985793.1985936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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