Simulating errors in web services

International Journal of Simulation: Systems, Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 29-37

  Looker, Nik ^a   Munro, Malcolm ^a   Xu, Jie ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependability; Fault injection; Fault model; Quality of Service; Reliability; Web Services

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WEBSITES;

DEPENDABILITY; DEPENDABILITY ANALYSIS; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT MODEL; NETWORK LEVEL; NETWORK MESSAGES; QUALITY OF SERVICE METRICS; TEST SCRIPTS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 27544488087     PISSN: 14738031     EISSN: 1473804X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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