Testing: A roadmap

Proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Software Engineering, ICSE 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 61-72

  Harrold, Mary Jean ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CRITICAL SOFTWARE; CRITICAL TASKS; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; EFFECTIVE TESTING; ROADMAP; STATE OF THE ART; TEST CASE; TESTING RESOURCES;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 85006005681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/336512.336532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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