Operational Auditing And Testing In Client/Server Systems

Abstract

Client/Server(C/S) systems have revolutionized the systems development approach.   Among the drivers of the C/S systems is the lower price/performance ratio compared to the mainframe based transaction processing systems.  As most Fortune 500 companies are moving quickly to the client server systems, it is increasingly becoming important that a C/S system project be audited several times during its development so that potential errors can be avoided.  In the current paper, we describe operational auditing in the C/S systems during  various phases of its development.