Research issues for software testing in the cloud

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 557-564

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

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Research issues; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING SERVICES; GROUNDED THEORY; ON-LINE SERVICE; PARADIGM SHIFTS; RESEARCH ISSUES; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE TESTING;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 79952407249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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