A TTCN-3 based online test and validation platform for Internet services

Author

Deussen, Peter H. ; Din, George ; Schieferdecker, Ina

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Res. Inst. for Open Commun. Syst., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 April 2003

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

184

Abstract

Management of services over large distributed systems together with the growing complexity of underlying technologies has become a challenge in the present time. Faults can occur anywhere in a distributed system. Online validation addresses the activity of evaluating the behavior of services and service environments in the production phase in order to determine functional faults immediately. In this paper, we present our work on the design and implementation of an online validation platform. We describe a generic architecture, which can be instantiated for implementing validation systems for any type of distributed environments. We also present our experiences in using TTCN-3 to implement an online validation system for active network environments.

Keywords

Internet; program testing; program verification; Internet services; TTCN-3; active network environments; distributed system; functional fault determination; online test platform; online validation; online validation platform; production phase; Component architectures; Control systems; Environmental management; Monitoring; Quality assurance; Resource management; Standards development; System testing; Technology management; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2003. ISADS 2003. The Sixth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1876-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.2003.1193946

Filename

1193946