A low budget approach to distributed automated black-box testing

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, SERP'05

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 302-308

  Boklund, Andreas ^a   Selvefors, Christer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automatic; Black box; Cost effective; Distributed computing; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; TESTING; VERIFICATION;

AUTOMATIC; BLACK-BOX; BLACK-BOX TESTING; COMPUTER CLUSTERS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RUNNING-IN; SHARED REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE VERIFICATIONS; TIME SPENT;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 60749103734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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