Testing of Communicating Systems XIV

Testing of Communicating Systems XIV presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems, ranging from tools and techniques for testing to test standards, frameworks, notations, algorithms, fundamentals of testing, and industrial experiences and issues. The tools and techniques discussed apply to conformance testing, interoperability testing, performance testing, Internet protocols and applications, and multimedia and distributed systems in general.

Autorentext
Hartmut König, Tätigkeiten im Hochschulbereich (Schulpädagogik) und in der Lehrerausbildung der Zweiten Phase (Studienseminare). Autor von Schulbüchern, Durchführung von Veranstaltungen in der Lehrerfort- und -weiterbildung.

Klappentext

Testing of Communicating Systems XIV presents the latest international results in both the theory and industrial practice of the testing of communicating systems, ranging from tools and techniques for testing to test standards, frameworks, notations, algorithms, fundamentals of testing, and industrial experiences and issues. The tools and techniques discussed apply to conformance testing, interoperability testing, performance testing, Internet protocols and applications, and multimedia and distributed systems in general.

Inhalt
Testing of IP Services & Applications in a Service Provider Environment.- A TCP Test System Specifying only Exceptional Packet Sequences.- Verifying IP Meters from Sampled Measurements.- Testing IP Differentiated Services Implementations.- Achieving High Reliability for Ubiquitous Information Technology.- An Automated, Flexible Testing Environment for UMTS.- Testing Mobile Agents.- Testing Access to External Information Sources in a Mediator Environment.- Compliance of Wireless Application Protocols.- A Flexible Traffic Generator for Testing PABX and Call Center Performance.- Interoperability Test Generation for Communication Protocols based on Multiple Stimuli Principle.- Automated Generation of Interoperability Tests.- Applying Formal Methods in Mobile Protocol Testing.- Experiences of TTCN-3 Test Executor Development.- Position Statement: Making TTCN-3 testing a success.- Position Statement: Testing Automation with Computer Aided Test Case Generation.- Automated Testing in Practice: The Highway Tolling System.- Ad-hoc Protocol Modelling, Validation and Automated Test Suite Generation.- Generate Certified Test Cases by Combining Theorem Proving and Reachability Analysis.- Test Selection, Trace Distance and Heuristics.- Formulation of the Interaction Test Coverage Problem as an Integer Program.- Principles of Distributed Test Synthesis based on True-concurrency Models.- Fault Detection within a Component of a System of Communicating FSMs.- Hardware/Software Integration Testing for the new Airbus Aircraft Families.- Test Generation for CEFSM Combining Specification and Fault Coverage.- FSM-based Re-Testing Methods.- A New Approach To Checking Sequence Generation for Finite State Machines.- Timed TTCN-3 A Real-Time Extension for TTCN-3.- Implementation of TTCN-3 TestSystems using the TRI.- A Definition and Utilisation of OMG IDL to TTCN-3 Mappings.- Author Index.- Partners of TestCom 2002.