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Ubiquitous RATs: how resource-aware run-time tests can improve ubiquitous software systems

Authors:

Matthias Merdes,

Daniel Brenner,

Colin AtkinsonAuthors Info & Claims

SEM '06: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software engineering and middleware

Pages 55 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/1210525.1210538

Published: 10 November 2006 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we describe a new approach for increasing the reliability of ubiquitous software systems. This is achieved by executing tests at run-time. The individual software components are consequently accompanied by executable tests. We augment this well-known built-in test (BIT) paradigm by combining it with resource-awareness. Starting from the constraints for such resource-aware tests (RATs) we derive their design and describe a number of strategies for executing such tests under resource constraints as well as the necessary middleware. Our approach is especially beneficial to ubiquitous software systems due to their dynamic nature - which prevents a static verification of their reliability - and their inherent resource limitations.

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Ubiquitous RATs: how resource-aware run-time tests can improve ubiquitous software systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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SEM '06: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software engineering and middleware

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ISBN:1595935851

DOI:10.1145/1210525

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