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Case study of testing a distributed internet-system

  1. Siegfried Goeschl1,*,
  2. Harry M. Sneed2

Article first published online: 29 JAN 2002

DOI: 10.1002/stvr.233

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Software Testing, Verification and Reliability

Software Testing, Verification and Reliability

Volume 12, Issue 2, pages 77–92, June 2002

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Goeschl, S. and Sneed, H. M. (2002), Case study of testing a distributed internet-system. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 12: 77–92. doi: 10.1002/stvr.233

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  1. 1

    IT Serv GmbH, A-1120 Vienna, Austria

  2. 2

    Software Daten Service, A-1200 Vienna, Austria

*Mexikoplatz 20/40, 1020 Wien, Austria

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 29 MAY 2002
  2. Article first published online: 29 JAN 2002
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 5 JUL 2001
  4. Manuscript Received: 10 APR 2000

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Keywords:

  • unit testing;
  • API testing;
  • interface test drivers;
  • message generation;
  • interface validation;
  • regression testing

Abstract

This paper describes the testing strategy, methods and tools used for testing a distributed financial services system on the Internet with CORBA interfaces for handling a high volume of queries to a relational database. The new system architecture was derived by reengineering a previous more limited application. The paper starts with an outline of the software architecture, the testing requirements and the testing strategy. It then goes on to describe the tools used in the project and the results achieved. For the project a generic C++ integration test framework was developed especially for testing distributed components. This tool is described in detail. The paper ends with a discussion of the discovered defects and their distribution. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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