Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0634-8
DOI :
10.1109/PDSE.1998.668160
