Software testing as an online service: Observations from practice

ICSTW 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 418-423

  Riungu, Leah Muthoni ^a   Taipale, Ossi ^a   Smolander, Kari ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Online delivery; Service; Software testing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; CLOUD COMPUTING; DELIVERY MODES; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; GROUNDED THEORY; ON-LINE SERVICE; ONLINE DELIVERY; ONLINE SOFTWARE; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH ISSUES; RESEARCH METHODS; TEST DATA;

DATA HANDLING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77953731886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2010.62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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