Improving data perturbation testing techniques for Web services

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 600-619

  De Melo, Ana C V ^a   Silveira, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data perturbation; Software testing; Web services

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING; WEBSITES;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; DATA PERTURBATION; DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE; QUALITY OF WEB SERVICES; SOA-BASED SYSTEMS; TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS; TESTING TECHNIQUE; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 78449289841     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.09.030     Document Type: Article

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