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Title

Scalable emulation of enterprise systems

Author(s)

Hine, Cameron;  Schneider, Jean-Guy;  Han, Jun;  Versteeg, Steve

Abstract

Testing enterprise software that communicates with a large number of other software systems is a challenging task as it is often difficult to replicate the size and heterogeneity of large enterprise environments. In particular, it is challenging to conduct testing of non-functional properties related to scalability, performance, and robustness of enterprise software systems when deployed into such environments. In order to address this issue, we propose the use of a scalable emulation environment enabling non-functional testing of enterprise software in realistic and large-scale settings. In this paper, we illustrate our approach by using deterministic finite state machines to specify a scalable and interactive emulation of a modeled environment. To demonstrate the practicality and scalability of the approach, a prototype tool is presented that is used to emulate a large-scale environment of up to 10,000 endpoint systems for an enterprise class software system.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of the 20th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2009), Gold Coast, Australia, 14-17 April 2009 / Colin Fidge (ed.), pp. 142-151

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

080309 Software Engineering

Keyword(s)

Embedded software;  Embedded software reuse;  Embedded system development;  Embedded systems;  Enterprise systems;  Large scale emulation;  Requirements reuse;  Software specifications

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

1530-0803

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASWEC.2009.34

Copyright

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