Towards the testing of power-aware software applications for wireless sensor networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4498 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 84-99

  Chan, W K ^a   Chen, T Y ^b   Cheung, S C ^c   Tse, T H ^d   Zhang, Zhenyu ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Metamorphic testing; Power awareness; Software testing; Test automation; Test oracle; Wireless sensor network; WSN application

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY CONSTRAINTS; METAMORPHIC TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 37849009737     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73230-3_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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