An enhanced test case generation technique based on activity diagrams

Proceedings - ICCES'2011: 2011 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 289-294

  Boghdady, Pakinam N ^a   Badr, Nagwa L ^a   Hashim, Mohamed A ^a   Tolba, Mohamed F ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cyclomatic complexity; Extensible Markup Language (XML); Model based Testing (MBT); Test case generation; Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Indexed keywords

CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY; EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE (XML); MODEL BASED TESTING (MBT); TEST CASE GENERATION; UNIFIED MODELING;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; XML;

AUTOMATIC TEST PATTERN GENERATION;

EID: 84857180104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCES.2011.6141058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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