An Ecosystem Approach for Testing Self-Organizing, Adaptive Systems

A test-ecosystem is a configurable, modularized and scalable technology platform which combines test-relevant building blocks like roles, processes, strategies, methods, tools and technology from multiple sources and multiple vendors. Our objective is to provide an end-to-end testing environment for self-organizing and adaptive systems. Users customize test-ecosystem instances to suit needs dependent on parameters like business goals, intended uses, interfaces and test-system properties relevant to the system under test. Two test-ecosystem instances are presented here to illustrate the approach for testing different, concrete, real-world, safety-critical, real-time systems.