SoftArch/MTE: Generating distributed system test-beds from high-level software architecture descriptions

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-39

  Grundy, John ^a   Cai, Yuhong ^a   Liu, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

CASE tools; Performance engineering; Rapid prototyping; Software architecture evaluation; Test bed generation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SERVERS; XML;

PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; TEST-BED GENERATION;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18744370792     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AUSE.0000049207.62380.74     Document Type: Review

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