Performing data flow testing on classes

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn Part F129497, Issue , 1994, Pages 154-163

  Harrold, Mary Jean ^a   Rothermel, Gregg ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ENGINEERING RESEARCH; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

ARBITRARY ORDER; BLACK BOX APPROACH; DATA-FLOW INFORMATION; DATA-FLOW INTERACTIONS; DATA-FLOW TESTING; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; RECENT RESEARCHES; TESTING TECHNIQUE;

BLACK-BOX TESTING;

EID: 85017181007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/193173.195402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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