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Towards virtualized and automated software performance test architecture
- Source :
- Multimedia Tools and Applications. 74:8745-8759
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.
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Abstract
- In this paper, we propose the towards virtualized and automated software performance test architecture. In general, test engineers use the public performance testwares such as Load Runner, Silk Performer to validate the performance efficiency of their own systems. In case that they do not allowed to use the performance testwares due to the technical limitations in the testwares, most testers should perform the testing in manually. According to the waste of computer and human resources resulted from the situation, we need to propose the test automation scheme by using the virtualization technology to prevent the dissipation in the test environment which has limited resources. The system architecture considered efficient usage of computer resources and test automation to reduce human acts are addressed mainly in this paper. we describe our proposed method which deals with the system architecture and test automation procedures. In our system architecture, we will show how to use the virtual machines and the types of the virtual machines for performance measurement. In addition, the six steps of the test automation are introduced for the automated testing procedures. Finally, a number of experiments show that the proposed schemes allow offering the possibility for automated software performance testing by using the virtualization.
- Subjects :
- Test strategy
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer science
business.industry
Test data generation
White-box testing
Software performance testing
Manual testing
Virtualization
computer.software_genre
Automation
Test harness
Service virtualization
Hardware and Architecture
Virtual machine
Embedded system
Performance engineering
Media Technology
Systems architecture
Test Management Approach
Reference architecture
business
computer
Software
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15737721 and 13807501
- Volume :
- 74
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Multimedia Tools and Applications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2f3cc43e033b9a3028121788413f1581