Traffic-aware stress testing of distributed real-time systems based on UML models in the presence of time uncertainty

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 92-101

  Garousi, Vahid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE TESTING; TIME MEASUREMENT; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; VERIFICATION; YIELD STRESS;

STRESS TESTING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 50649110299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2008.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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