A test management and software visualization framework for heterogeneous distributed applications

Large scale distributed applications are widely used by internet service providers for customers and by companies for their own use. There is a need to provide test management facilities for such systems to validate, evaluate performance and ensure conformance to service level agreements. These facilities are also needed for the certification process required as part of maintaining such systems. This paper describes an extensible framework called RiOT that can be used to manage testing, and allow dynamic visualization of heterogeneous distributed component-based applications