@tComment: Testing javadoc comments to detect comment-code inconsistencies

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 260-269

  Tan, Shin Hwei ^a   Marinov, Darko ^a   Tan, Lin ^b   Leavens, Gary T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

comment analysis; random testing; test generation

Indexed keywords

COMMENT ANALYSIS; JAVADOC; NULL VALUE; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; RANDOM TESTING; RANDOM TESTS; SOURCE FILES; TEST GENERATIONS; TWO-COMPONENT;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84862315107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2012.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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