Testing Software and Systems: 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2010, Natal, Brazil, November 8-10, 2010, Proceedings: 6435 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) - Softcover

Testing has steadily become more and more important within the development of software and systems, motivating an increasing amount of research aimed at tryingtosolvebothnewchallengesimposedbytheadvancementinvariousareas of computer science and long-standing problems. Testing has evolved during the last decades from an ad-hoc and under-exposed area of systems development to an important and active research area. The22ndInternationalConferenceonTestingSoftwareandSystems(ICTSS) involved the merger of two traditional and important events which have served the testing community as an important venue for discussing advancements in the area. Those events, namely, TestCom (the IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 Inter- tional Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems), and FATES (Inter- tional Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software), together form a large event on testing, validation, and speci?cation of software and systems. They have a long history. TestCom is an IFIP-sponsored series of international conferences,previouslyalsocalledInternationalWorkshoponProtocolTestS- tems(IWPTS)orInternationalWorkshoponTestingofCommunicatingSystems (IWTCS). It is devoted to testing of communicating systems, including testing of communication protocols, services, distributed platforms, and middleware.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2010, held in Natal, Brazil, in November 2010. ICTSS 2010 is the merger of the 22nd IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TESTCOM) and the 10th International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES). The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited presentations were carefully selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of testing of general software and systems such as test automation, integration testing, test case selection, search based testing, combinatorial testing, inductive testing, test architectures for large-scale systems, and end-to-end performance testing.