Technical debt in test automation

Proceedings - IEEE 5th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 887-892

  Wiklund, Kristian ^a   Eldh, Sigrid ^a   Sundmark, Daniel ^b   Lundqvist, Kristina ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

case study; empirical study; software testing; technical debt; test automation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TEST; AUTOMATED TESTING; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERACTION DESIGN; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; TECHNICAL DEBT; TELECOMMUNICATION SUBSYSTEMS; TEST AUTOMATION; TEST AUTOMATION TOOL; TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; TEST EXECUTION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATION; MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE TESTING;

TESTING;

EID: 84862310671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2012.192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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