Automated refactoring for testability

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 437-443

  Cinnéide, Mel Ó ^a   Boyle, Dermot ^b   Moghadam, Iman Hemati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION CODES; IMPROVE-A; INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE PRACTICES; TEST CASE; TEST CODE; TESTABILITY; UNIT TESTING;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 80051649526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2011.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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