Metamorphic testing for Web services: Framework and a case study

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 9th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 283-290

  Sun, Chang Ai ^a   Wang, Guan ^a   Mu, Baohong ^a   Liu, Huai ^b   Wang, Zhao Shun ^a   Chen, T Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metamorphic testing; Service Oriented Architecture; Software testing; Test oracle; Web services

Indexed keywords

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

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; CASE-STUDIES; METAMORPHIC TESTING; ORACLE PROBLEM; SOA (SERVICEORIENTED ARCHITECTURE); SOFTWARE TESTINGS; TEST ORACLES; TESTING FRAMEWORK; WEB SERVICE FRAMEWORKS; WEBS SERVICES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 80053158292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICWS.2011.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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