Robustness Testing of Standard Specifications-Based HA Middleware

Using middleware implementations, instead of integrating the fault tolerance in the applications themselves, for providing stateful services highly availably has become the best practice in many industries including the telecommunication, computing and other areas. Robustness of these implementations toward user failures is essential for the overall availability of the systems. This paper summarizes the methodology for executing robustness tests on Service Availability Forum Application Interface Specification based middleware and describes the results of the conducted experiments with the Open SAF open source middleware implementation. Finally, the results of the measurements/experiments are analyzed using the AMBERRAW Data Repository.