Building a cloud-based mobile application testbed

Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 82-403

  Turner, Hamilton ^a   White, Jules ^a   Reed, Jeff ^a   Galindo, José ^b   Porter, Adam ^c   Marathe, Madhav ^b   Vullikanti, Anil ^d   Gokhale, Aniruddha ^e  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84898177911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch018     Document Type: Chapter

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