Automated robustness testing of off-the-shelf software components

Digest of Papers - 28th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, FTCS 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 230-239

  Kropp, Nathan P ^a   Koopman, Philip J ^a   Siewiorek, Daniel P ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SCAFFOLDS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

AUTOMATICALLY TEST; COMPONENT FUNCTIONALITY; COMPONENT INTERFACES; COTS SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; FULL-SCALE IMPLEMENTATION; MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED APPROACH; ROBUSTNESS TESTING;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF;

EID: 84989314613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FTCS.1998.689474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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