A test management and software visualization framework for heterogeneous distributed applications

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 106-116

  Ghosh, Sudipto ^a   Bawa, Nishant ^a   Craig, Gerald ^a   Kalgaonkar, Ketaki ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Certification; Computer science; Java; Large scale systems; Quality assurance; Software maintenance; Software testing; System testing; Visualization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

CERTIFICATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; JAVA; LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION; SYSTEM TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 28044440053     PISSN: 15302059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HASE.2001.966812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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