Design and test of distributed applications

The author presents a paradigm and system that will support a programmer who is designing, programming, and testing a distributed application. The main point is that the structure introduced by the paradigm must be kept and used during design, programming, and testing. One is not helped by a programming method which introduces a structure just to break it down again. A structural model has been developed which is based on common structures in distributed systems. This model is used to describe the logical relationships between components in a system. It is also integrated into the programming environment