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Among the many sectors impacted by COVID-19 pandemic, education is one of the most affected where the existing system of students sharing spaces in physical classes is deemed too dangerous. As a response to the closure of schools and universities by the Malaysian government, Universiti Teknologi MARA was among the earliest that announced the continuation of semester via online learning. Immediately after the statement, students flocked to social medias expressing negative sentiments on the university's decision. They voiced possible difficulties such as inability to focus, problems accessing the Internet, and feelings of unfairness. These concerns of students are worthy of a study as they feel strongly about them even without having entirely gone an online learning experience at the time of announcement. With that in mind, this paper explores issues on learning during a pandemic by focusing especially on recent and early reports that have only been published once COVID-19 epidemic becomes a global issue. Result of these reviews on literature shows that these issues can be categorized into six: technological readiness, technological knowledge, financial, facility, emotional, and domestic situations. These six categories are not by any means conclusive and other arising issues discovered in the future may necessitate the creation of new categories. However, findings from the categories discussed here are enough to be used as a stepping point for further explorations. For example, as the backdrop against a research of students' experience after completion of online learning, where their earlier sentiments can either be verified, or challenged against.

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E-business systems are known for their frequent changes in business requirements, and traditional software development engineering approaches have difficulties in keeping up with this dynamicity. The use of service oriented architecture in software development has become popular as it provides a solution to frequent changes to business environments in a heterogeneous network. In service oriented architecture, new systems are quickly developed by combining services developed and owned by different organizations, and one way of realising this architecture is via Web services. Although much research effort has been put into the discovery, invocation and composition of services testing Web services has only begun to attract interest from both researchers and industry players. This paper aims to provide a mapping study of current Web services composition testing researches conducted by other researchers. Research papers on testing of Web services composition were gathered from various scholarly databases using provided search engines within a given period of time. The research papers were then classified according to issues addressed by them. The aim is to get a broad overview of the current state of research in Web services composition testing. By looking at the areas focused by existing researchers, gaps and untouched areas of Web services composition testing can be discovered.