Comparing the Applicability of Complexity Measurements for Simulink Models during Integration Testing - An Industrial Case Study

Proceedings - 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture and Metrics, SAM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 35-40

  Schroeder, Jan ^a   Berger, Christian ^a   Herpel, Thomas ^b   Staron, Miroslaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

complexity; hardware in the loop; integration testing; interview study; maintainability; metrics; Simulink; software validity

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; HARDWARE; INTEGRATION; MAINTAINABILITY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE TESTING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

COMPLEXITY; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; INTERVIEW STUDY; METRICS; SIMULINK; SOFTWARE VALIDITIES;

INTEGRATION TESTING;

EID: 84946901686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAM.2015.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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