Testing Environment Emulation - A Model-based Approach

Jian Liu, John Grundy, Mohamed Abdelrazek, Iman Avazpour

2017

Abstract

Modern enterprise software systems often need to interact with a large number of distributed and heterogeneous systems. As a result, integration testing has become a critical step in their software development lifecycle. Service virtualization is an emerging technique for creating testing environments with realistic executable models of server side production-like behaviours. However, building models in existing service virtualization approaches is very challenging, requiring either significant human effort or the availability of interactive tracing records. In this paper, we present a domain-specific modeling approach to generate complex, virtualized testing environments. Our approach allows domain experts to use a suite of domain-specific visual modeling languages to model key interface layers of applications at a high level of abstraction. These layered models are then transformed into a testing runtime environment for application integration testing. We have conducted a technical comparison with two other existing approaches and also carried out a user study. The user study demonstrated the acceptance of our new testing environment emulation approach from software testing experts and developers.

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Liu J., Grundy J., Abdelrazek M. and Avazpour I. (2017). Testing Environment Emulation - A Model-based Approach . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-210-3, pages 112-124. DOI: 10.5220/0006194601120124


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@conference{modelsward17,
author={Jian Liu and John Grundy and Mohamed Abdelrazek and Iman Avazpour},
title={Testing Environment Emulation - A Model-based Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2017},
pages={112-124},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006194601120124},
isbn={978-989-758-210-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Testing Environment Emulation - A Model-based Approach
SN - 978-989-758-210-3
AU - Liu J.
AU - Grundy J.
AU - Abdelrazek M.
AU - Avazpour I.
PY - 2017
SP - 112
EP - 124
DO - 10.5220/0006194601120124