A temporal approach for testing distributed systems

Ahmed Khoumsi

doi:10.1109/TSE.2002.1049406

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A temporal approach for testing distributed systems

2002-11-01

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Ahmed Khoumsi *

DOI：10.1109/TSE.2002.1049406

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This paper deals with testing distributed software systems. In the past, two important problems have been determined for executing tests using a distributed test architecture: controllability and observability problems. A coordinated test method has subsequently been proposed to solve these two problems. In the present article: 1) we show that controllability and observability are indeed resolved if and only if the test system respects some timing constraints, even when the system under test is non-real-time; 2) we determine these timing constraints; 3) we determine other timing constraints which optimize the duration of test execution; 4) we show that the communication medium used by the test system has not to be necessarily FIFO; and 5) we show that the centralized test method can be considered just as a particular case of the proposed coordinated test method.

Keywords:

conformance testing

distributed systems

controllability

observability

reaction time

waiting time

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