Scenario-Based Web Services Testing with Distributed Agents

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2130-2144

  Tsai, Wei Tek ^b   Paul, Ray ^b   Yu, Lian ^b   Saimi, Akihiro ^a   Cao, Zhibin ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Object oriented test frameworks; QoS; Scenarios; Web Services

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

WEB SERVICES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 0242410950     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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