Automatic identification of load testing problems

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 307-316

  Jiang, Zhen Ming ^a   Hassan, Ahmed E ^a   Hamann, Gilbert ^b   Flora, Parminder ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH IN MOTION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; ERRORS; MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

APPLICATION UNDER TESTS; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATIONS; CASE STUDIES; DOMAIN EXPERTS; ENTERPRISE SOFTWARES; ERROR MESSAGES; EXECUTION SEQUENCES; FALSE ALARMS; HIGH LOADS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; MANUAL CHECKS; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; TESTING RESULTS;

LOAD TESTING;

EID: 57849152538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2008.4658079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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