Towards a hierarchical testing and evaluation strategy for web services system

Proceedings - 7th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 245-252

  Mao, Chengying ^a  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

BPEL; Reliability; State transition tree; Test cases; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL TESTING; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; IN-SERVICE UNITS; RELIABILITY EVALUATION; SERVICE QUALITY; STATE DIAGRAM; STATE TRANSITION TREE; STATE TRANSITIONS; SYSTEM LEVELS; TEST CASES; TEST CASES GENERATION; TESTING AND EVALUATION; TESTING RECORDS; TREE TESTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 77949801992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SERA.2009.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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