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International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis archive
Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 169 - 184

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-89791-683-2

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Gregg Rothermel	Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Mary Jean Harrold	Department of Computer Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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