A test framework for CORBA interoperability

Author

Li, Mang ; Puder, Arno ; Schieferdecker, Ina

Author_Institution

Competence Center for Testing Interoperability & Performance, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

161

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to interoperability testing of CORBA implementations. The ORB Under Test (OUT) is embedded in the test system in such a way, that the behavior of either the client side or the server side of the OUT is controllable and observable. Components of the test system emulate the peer entities of the OUT and the applications based on the OUT in order to get direct access both to the GIOP interface and to the CORBA APIs. A specification framework for the test system is proposed. It separates the concerns of test data and test behavior to facilitate modularity and dynamic of the test system. The description languages CORBA IDL, ODMG ODL and TTCN-3 are used in the framework

Keywords

application program interfaces; conformance testing; distributed object management; open systems; program testing; CORBA APIs; CORBA IDL; CORBA interoperability; GIOP interface; ODMG ODL; ORB Under Test; TTCN-3; peer entities; specification framework; test behavior; test framework; Computer languages; Control systems; Internet; Middleware; Operating systems; Proposals; Skeleton; System testing; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2001. EDOC '01. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1345-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.2001.950431

Filename

950431