Establishing integration test orders of classes with several coupling measures

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1867-1874

  Assunção, Wesley Klewerton Guez ^a   Colanzi, Thelma Elita ^a   Pozo, Aurora Trinidad Ramirez ^a   Vergilio, Silvia Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Inter class testing; Multi objective evolutionary algorithms

Indexed keywords

COMMON PROBLEMS; COUPLING MEASURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INTEGRATION TESTS; INTER-CLASS TESTING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; NSGA-II; REAL SYSTEMS; TEST COST;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TESTING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860389350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2001576.2001827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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