Test reuse in the spreadsheet paradigm

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 257-268

  Ii, Marc Fisher ^a   Jin, Dalai ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a   Burnett, Margaret ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic testing; Computer science; Financial management; Pharmaceuticals; Quality assessment; Quality management; Safety; Software testing; System testing; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMATIC TESTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER TESTING; DRUG PRODUCTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTEGRATION TESTING; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SAFETY TESTING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SPREADSHEETS;

AUTOMATED GENERATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENTS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SYSTEM TESTING; TEST CASE; TEST INPUTS; TESTING EFFORT; TESTING METHODOLOGY;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84948749944     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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