Testing configurable component-based software - Configuration test modeling and complexity analysis

SEKE 2011 - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 495-502

  Gao, Jerry ^a,b   Guan, Jing ^a   Ma, Alex ^a   Tao, Chuanqi ^a   Bai, Xiaoying ^b   Kung, David C ^c  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Configurable software testing; Configuration testing; Test complexity; Test criteria; Test modeling and analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS; COMPONENT BASED; COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE; COMPOSITE COMPONENTS; CONFIGURABLE; EVALUATION METHOD; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC TREE; SOFTWARE COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY; TEST AUTOMATION; TEST COMPLEXITY; TEST CRITERIA; TEST MODELING; TEST MODELS; TESTING COMPLEXITY;

ENGINEERING; ENGINEERS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84855544090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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