Towards quality programming in the automated testing of client/server applications

摘要

This paper presents a statistics-based framework which is an extension of the testing concept in Quality Programmign for automating client/server testing.We specify all possible delivered messages between events by means of a 'Symbolic Message Attribute Decomposition' (SMAD) tree with the casual message ordering.To address two crucial issues in software testing,when to stop testing and how good the software is after the testing ,this framework not only can automaticlaly generate the testscripts and valid the test results on client sites with the SMAD tree,but cna examine the interaction behaviour between client and server sites with the causal message ordering.The implementation of automated testing for a 3-tier client/server banking application which incorporates the framework is also described.