A reusable automated acceptance testing architecture for microservices in behavior-driven development

Proceedings - 9th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, IEEE SOSE 2015

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 321-325

  Rahman, Mazedur ^a   Gao, Jerry ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior driven development; Executable automated acceptance testing; Functional testing; Gherkin; Microservice

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; FAULT TOLERANCE; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED ACCEPTANCE TESTING; BEHAVIOR-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL TESTING; GHERKIN; MICROSERVICE;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

EID: 84990950599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SOSE.2015.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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