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What makes one software architecture more testable than another?

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Foundations of Software Engineering archive
Joint proceedings of the second international software architecture workshop (ISAW-2) and international workshop on multiple perspectives in software development (Viewpoints '96) on SIGSOFT '96 workshops table of contents

San Francisco, California, United States

Pages: 65 - 67

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-867-3

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Nancy S. Eickelmann	Information and Computer Science Department, University Of California Irvine, Irvine, California
Debra J. Richardson	Information and Computer Science Department, University Of California Irvine, Irvine, California

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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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	Debra Richardson , Paola Inverardi, ROSATEA: International Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture in Analysis E(and) Testing, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.24 n.4, p.33-42, July 1999