Traffic-aware stress testing of distributed systems based on UML models

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 391-400

  Garousi, Vahid ^a   Briand, Lionel G ^a,b   Labiche, Yvan ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Model based testing; Network traffic; Stress testing; UML

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STRESS ANALYSIS;

MODEL-BASED TESTING; NETWORK TRAFFIC; REAL-WORLD DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 33750364844     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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