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Using a goal-driven approach to generate test cases for GUIs

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Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 257 - 266

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-074-0

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Atif M. Memon	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Martha E. Pollack	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Mary Lou Soffa	Dept. of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
IEEE-CS\TCSE : TC on Software Engineering
SIGADA: ACM Special Interest Group on Ada Programming Language
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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