Towards a framework for testing distributed multimedia software systems

Author

Misic, Vojislav ; Chanson, S.T. ; Shing-Chi Cheung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Syst. Manage., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon

fYear

1998

fDate

20-21 Apr 1998

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

81

Abstract

With the advancement in network speed and computing power, distributed multimedia applications are becoming popular. However, general principles of system testing cannot be directly applied to testing of distributed multimedia software systems (DMSS) on account of their stringent timing and synchronization requirements. The paper presents a framework for testing DMSS with special emphases on test case generation and test architecture. The authors propose ways to greatly cut down the number of test cases without compromising the test effectiveness. Procedures for testing the servers and the clients are also discussed

Keywords

client-server systems; multimedia computing; synchronisation; testing; timing; client testing; distributed multimedia software system testing; server testing; synchronization requirements; system testing; test architecture; test case generation; timing requirements; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Software systems; Software testing; System testing; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0634-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDSE.1998.668160

Filename

668160