The MIDAS Cloud Platform for Testing SOA Applications

Author

Herbold, Steffen ; De Francesco, Alberto ; Grabowski, Jens ; Harms, Patrick ; Hillah, Lom M. ; Kordon, Fabrice ; Maesano, Ariele-Paolo ; Maesano, Libero ; Di Napoli, Claudia ; De Rosa, Fabio ; Schneider, Martin A. ; Tonellotto, Nicola ; Wendland, Marc-Flo

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

While Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are for many parts deployed online, and today often in a cloud, the testing of the systems still happens mostly locally. In this paper, we want to present the MIDAS Testing as a Service (TaaS), a cloud platform for the testing of SOAs. We focus on the testing of whole SOA orchestrations, a complex task due to the number of potential service interactions and the increasing complexity with each service that joins an orchestration. Since traditional testing does not scale well with such a complex setup, we employ a Model-based Testing (MBT) approach based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the UML Testing Profile (UTP) within MIDAS. Through this, we provide methods for functional testing, security testing, and usage-based testing of service orchestrations. Through harnessing the computational power of the cloud, MIDAS is able to generate and execute complex test scenarios which would be infeasible to run in a local environment.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; cloud computing; program testing; service-oriented architecture; MBT approach; MIDAS cloud platform; MIDAS testing-as-a-service; SOA application testing; SOA orchestration; TaaS platform; UML testing profile; functional testing; model-based testing approach; security testing; service oriented architecture; unified modeling language; usage-based testing; Cloud computing; DSL; Monitoring; Service-oriented architecture; Testing; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2015 IEEE 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICST.2015.7102636

Filename

7102636