A Generic Gateway for Testing Heterogeneous Components in Acceptance Testing Tools

Díaz, Jessica; Yagüe, Agustín; Alarcón, Pedro Pablo; Garbajosa, Juan

doi:10.1109/iccbss.2008.31

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“…Other than the studies focusing on system and integration testing, a relatively small set of studies attempt to discuss the problem of testing in heterogeneous systems in other test phases. Mao et al [23] study this problem in the unit test phase whereas Diaz [7] addresses the problem of testing heterogeneous systems in the acceptance testing phase.…”

Section: Testing In Heterogeneous Systemsmentioning

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Heterogeneous Systems Testing Techniques: An Exploratory Survey

Ghazi

Petersen

Börstler

2015

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Heterogeneous systems comprising sets of inherent subsystems are challenging to integrate. In particular, testing for interoperability and conformance is a challenge. Furthermore, the complexities of such systems amplify traditional testing challenges. We explore (1) which techniques are frequently discussed in literature in context of heterogeneous system testing that practitioners use to test their heterogeneous systems; (2) the perception of the practitioners on the usefulness of the techniques with respect to a defined set of outcome variables. For that, we conducted an exploratory survey. A total of 27 complete survey answers have been received. Search-based testing has been used by 14 out of 27 respondents, indicating the practical relevance of the approach for testing heterogeneous systems, which itself is relatively new and has only recently been studied extensively. The most frequently used technique is exploratory manual testing, followed by combinatorial testing. With respect to the perceived performance of the testing techniques, the practitioners were undecided regarding many of the studied variables. Manual exploratory testing received very positive ratings across outcome variables.

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Section: Testing In Heterogeneous Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Heterogeneous Systems Testing Techniques: An Exploratory Survey

Ghazi

Petersen

Börstler

2015

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…A first step in this direction was presented in [20]. This paper means one step ahead adding the definition of a systematic process to adapt the gateway for testing any system.…”

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“…To achieve this goal the process uses a generic and configurable architecture of a gateway hosted on top of an OSGi (Open Service Gateway initiative) Platform [18] [19]. The design guidelines for such a gateway were presented in [20]. Basically, the architecture has two well defined interfaces: the interface to the test tool and the interface to the SUT (interfaces have been described break down in section 3.3).…”

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A Systematic Process for Implementing Gateways for Test Tools

Díaz

Yagüe

Garbajosa

2009

2009 16th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems

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Test automation is facing a new challenge because tools, as well as having to provide conventional test functionalities, must be capable to interact with ever more heterogeneous complex systems under test (SUT). The number of existing software interfaces to access these systems is also a growing number. The problem cannot be analyzed only from a technical or engineering perspective; the economic perspective is as important. This paper presents a process to systematically implement gateways which support the communication between test tools and SUTs with a reduced cost. The proposed solution does not preclude any interface protocol at the SUT side. This process is supported using a generic architecture of a gateway defined on top of OSGi. Any test tool can communicate with the gateway through a unique defined interface. To communicate the gateway and the SUT, basically, the driver corresponding to the SUT software interface has to be loaded.

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