Bringing white-box testing to Service Oriented Architectures through a Service Oriented Approach

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 655-668

  Bartolini, Cesare ^a   Bertolino, Antonia ^a   Elbaum, Sebastian ^b   Marchetti, Eda ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage adequacy criteria; Service Oriented Architecture; Testing web services; White box testing

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; COVERAGE ADEQUACY CRITERIA; COVERAGE TESTING; INTERMEDIARY SERVICES; LOOSE COUPLINGS; SERVICE ORIENTED; WHITE-BOX TESTING;

INFORMATION SERVICES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 79751537306     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.10.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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