DieCast: Testing distributed systems with an accurate scale model

5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 407-421

  Gupta, Diwaker ^a   Vishwanath, Kashi V ^a   Vahdat, Amin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TESTING; TURING MACHINES; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CONFIGURATION ERRORS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SERVICE CONFIGURATION; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 85094665983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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