GENESIS - A Framework for Automatic Generation and Steering of Testbeds of ComplexWeb Services

Nowadays, the importance of Web services is steadily increasing in domains where interoperability is of paramount importance. This trend is especially observable in complex computer systems which consist of a large number of interacting distributed components, often implemented using Web services. Large-scale systems and high complexity usually result in higher error-proneness in the development process. This should be addressed as early as possible during the development of complex service-oriented systems, ideally before they are actually deployed on a distributed infrastructure. In this paper we present GENESIS - a software framework for solving this problem. Our framework allows automatic generation and steering of testbeds of complex Web services, thereby empowering developers to specify functional and non-functional properties of Web services, to generate and deploy Web service instances on remote hosting environments, to enhance the functionality of the framework with plug-ins, and to control the behavior of the testbed during runtime.