Ubiquitous RATs: How resource-aware run-time tests can improve ubiquitous software systems

SEM 2006: Sixth International Workshop on Software Engineering and Middleware - Workshop Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 55-62

  Merdes, Matthias ^a   Malaka, Rainer ^a,d   Suliman, Dima ^b   Paech, Barbara ^b   Brenner, Daniel ^c   Atkinson, Colin ^c  

^a EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Built in test (BIT); MORABIT; Resource aware test (RAT); Run time testing; Ubiquitous software

Indexed keywords

BUILT-IN SELF TEST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; RESOURCE-AWARE TEST (RAT); RUN-TIME TESTING; UBIQUITOUS SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 34748917789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1210525.1210538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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