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AWCC
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Testing Web Services Using Progressive Group Testing
This paper proposes progressive group testing techniques to test large number of Web services (WS) available on Internet. At the unit testing level, the WS with the same functional...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Yinong Chen, Zhibin Cao, Xiaoying Ba...
FM
2005
Springer
108views Formal Methods» more  FM 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Formal Methods and Testing: Hypotheses, and Correctness Approximations
It has been recognised for a while that formal specifications can bring much to software testing. Numerous methods have been proposed for the derivation of test cases from various ...
Marie-Claude Gaudel
IEAAIE
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Holistic Approach to Test-Driven Model Checking
Abstract. Testing is the most common validation method in the software industry. It entails the execution of the software system in the real environment. Nevertheless, testing is a...
Fevzi Belli, Baris Güldali
ICCS
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Model-Based Statistical Testing of a Cluster Utility
Abstract. As High Performance Computing becomes more collaborative, software certification practices are needed to quantify the credibility of shared applications. To demonstrate q...
W. Thomas Swain, Stephen L. Scott
GECCO
2005
Springer
136views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
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Stress testing real-time systems with genetic algorithms
Reactive real-time systems have to react to external events within time constraints: Triggered tasks must execute within deadlines. The goal of this article is to automate, based ...
Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche, Marwa Shousha
SIGCSE
2005
ACM
163views Education» more  SIGCSE 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Using SeSFJava in teaching introductory network courses
Networking course projects are usually described by an informal specification and a collection of test cases. Students often misunderstand the specification or oversimplify it t...
Tamer Elsharnouby, A. Udaya Shankar
AMOST
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Using information about functions in selecting test cases
We consider the problem of generating a set of test cases from a black box specification. We focus on stress testing, i.e. picking test cases that seem most likely to reveal prog...
Markus Clermont, David Lorge Parnas
ICSM
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Comparison of Test Suite Reduction Techniques for User-Session-Based Testing of Web Applications
Automated cost-effective test strategies are needed to provide reliable, secure, and usable web applications. As a software maintainer updates an application, test cases must accu...
Sara Sprenkle, Sreedevi Sampath, Emily Gibson, Lor...
PADS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Analysing the Performance of Optimistic Synchronisation Algorithms in Simulations of Multi-Agent Systems
In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the performance of the Decision Theoretic Read Delay (DTRD) optimistic synchronisation algorithm for simulations of Multistems. We ...
Michael Lees, Brian Logan, Dan Chen, Ton Oguara, G...
VL
2006
IEEE
122views Visual Languages» more  VL 2006»
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AutoTest: A Tool for Automatic Test Case Generation in Spreadsheets
In this paper we present a system that helps users test their spreadsheets using automatically generated test cases. The system generates the test cases by backward propagation an...
Robin Abraham, Martin Erwig