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Current problems and tools support for testing distributed systems

dc.contributor.authorLe, Anh Thuen_NZ
dc.date.available2011-04-07T03:09:59Z
dc.date.copyright2006-10en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationLe, A. T. (2006, October). Current problems and tools support for testing distributed systems (Dissertation, Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1184en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10523/1184
dc.description.abstractTesting is a critical activity in designing and implementing software and computer systems, especially distributed systems (Eickelmann & Richardson, 1996). In addition, validating distributed systems is a complex process, and it requires the knowledge of “the communication taking place and the order of communication messages exchanged between the individual components to avoid deadlocks or livelocks during runtime” (Ulrich, Zimmerer, Chrobok-Diening, 1999, p.2). This dissertation attempts to briefly emphasise the role of testing in distributed systems. In addition, it addresses few common issues in building distributed systems together with a number of solutions to these issues. The main focus of this dissertation is on three main features of distributed systems that often challenge the programmers and testers, which are concurrency, scalability, and fault tolerance. For the first two features, a number of open source testing tools are chosen to compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each tool. A number of testing techniques are applied to show the importance of the third feature, namely, the fault tolerance. Besides, the importance of each feature is highlighted by testing a number of sample distributed systems.en_NZ
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dc.subjectdistributed systemsen_NZ
dc.subjectTestingen_NZ
dc.subjectvalidating distributed systemsen_NZ
dc.subjectconcurrencyen_NZ
dc.subjectscalabilityen_NZ
dc.subjectand fault toleranceen_NZ
dc.subject.lcshT Technology (General)en_NZ
dc.subject.lcshQ Science (General)en_NZ
dc.titleCurrent problems and tools support for testing distributed systemsen_NZ
dc.typeDissertationen_NZ
dc.description.versionUnpublisheden_NZ
otago.bitstream.pages79en_NZ
otago.date.accession2007-03-01en_NZ
otago.schoolInformation Scienceen_NZ
thesis.degree.disciplineInformation Scienceen_NZ
thesis.degree.nameBachelor of Applied Science with Honours
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Otagoen_NZ
thesis.degree.levelHonours Dissertationsen_NZ
otago.openaccessOpen
dc.identifier.eprints554en_NZ
otago.school.eprintsInformation Scienceen_NZ
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