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Distributed test agents: a pattern for the development of automatic system tests for distributed applications

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Giovanni Farias,

Ayla Dantas,

Raquel Lopes,

Dalton GuerreroAuthors Info & Claims

SugarLoafPLoP '12: Proceedings of the 9th Latin-American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/2591028.2600817

Published: 20 September 2012 Publication History

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This paper presents a test pattern for developing automated system tests for distributed applications. System tests are those intended to test the whole, completely integrated application. Developing such tests is hard because it demands the probing and analysis of data from distributed objects that sometimes present asynchronous operations. The Distributed Test Agents pattern is intended to guide the testers in the development of automated system tests for distributed applications. During the development of the tests, testers can abstract several details regarding the configuration of the distributed components and they can use and access these components in a simple and synchronous way.

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Distributed test agents: a pattern for the development of automatic system tests for distributed applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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SugarLoafPLoP '12: Proceedings of the 9th Latin-American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programming

September 2012

164 pages

ISBN:9781450327879

DOI:10.1145/2591028

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