Timed distributed testing rules for the distributed test architecture

Abstract

The paper presents some technical issues for testing distributed systems. The proposed approach consists on exploring the temporal properties that specify the time required to exchange messages between the various components of the distributed test application. Thereby taking into consideration the temporal properties in the specification of the behavior of conformance testing, it will provide a higher degree of expressiveness and flexibility. In other side, the paper show how to cope with problems encountered in distributed testing using timed distributed testing rules. Afterwards, we present our algorithm allowing the generation of such rules and a prototype of test using a Distributed Algorithmic and Rule-Based System (DARBS).