CAMELOT: technology focused testing of CSCW applications

Abstract

In this paper we describe CAMELOT, a novel technologyfocused methodology for testing collaborative software that contrasts with existing broad-based CSCW evaluation approaches. CAMELOT is intended for use by application developers, user interface specialists, performance engineers, and quality assurance personnel. The evaluation of a CSCW application is divided into two stages: single user and multiuser. The single user stage is subdivided into general computing and human-computer interaction testing. The multiuser stage is decomposed into distributed computing and human-human interaction testing. The methodology provides a detailed, codified, checklist of testing techniques for each stage. We applied CAMELOT to a conventionally tested, mature CSCW application. Our techniques uncovered and classified over two dozen problems with the system.

Test coverage for collaborative workflow application based on Petri Net

“…Collaborative workflow owned distribute and other characteristics, testing, and verification of the correctness of the extremely difficult. CAMELOT study single-user, multi-user and computer, human-computer interaction and construct four pairs of collaborative applications point of view in the testing [5]. Collaborative workflow testing have many ways, the traditional white-box testing are based on the original method, the workflow itself, flow testing, but can see that the complexity of the workflow design phase of testing will give a tremendous job workflow, and this method is based on the work of Petri flow block to get a complete test cases.…”