Breeding software test cases with genetic algorithms

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Berndt, D ^a   Fisher, J ^a   Johnson, L ^b   Pinglikar, J ^a   Watkins, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

AUTOMATED TEST GENERATIONS; COGNITIVE BIAS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; FOSSIL RECORDS; SEARCH BEHAVIOURS; SEARCH PROCESS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84969508728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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