Service-oriented architectures testing: A survey

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

Volumn 5413, Issue , 2009, Pages 78-105

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; INDIVIDUAL SERVICE; INTEGRATION TESTING; INTER-ENTERPRISE; NON-FUNCTIONAL; NON-FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; REGRESSION TESTING; RUNTIME; SERVICE CENTRIC SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; TESTABILITY; TESTING TECHNIQUE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SERVICES; OCEAN CURRENTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SURVEYS; TESTING;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

EID: 67049172237     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95888-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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