A Testing Scheme for Self-Adaptive Software Systems with Architectural Runtime Models

2015 IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops Pub Date : 2015-09-21 DOI:10.1109/SASOW.2015.27

Joachim Hänsel, T. Vogel, H. Giese

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Self-adaptive software systems (SASS) are equipped with feedback loops to adapt autonomously to changes of the software or environment. In established fields, such as embedded software, sophisticated approaches have been developed to systematically study feedback loops early during the development. In order to cover the particularities of feedback, techniques like one-way and in-the-loop simulation and testing have been included. However, a related approach to systematically test SASS is currently lacking. In this paper we therefore propose a systematic testing scheme for SASS that allows engineers to test the feedback loops early in the development by exploiting architectural runtime models. These models that are available early in the development are commonly used by the activities of a feedback loop at runtime and they provide a suitable high-level abstraction to describe test inputs as well as expected test results. We further outline our ideas with some initial evaluation results by means of a small case study.

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具有体系结构运行时模型的自适应软件系统测试方案

自适应软件系统(SASS)配备了反馈回路，以自主适应软件或环境的变化。在已建立的领域，例如嵌入式软件，已经开发出复杂的方法来系统地研究开发早期的反馈循环。为了涵盖反馈的特殊性，包括了单向和环内模拟和测试等技术。然而，目前缺乏一种相关的系统测试SASS的方法。因此，在本文中，我们为SASS提出了一个系统的测试方案，该方案允许工程师通过利用架构运行时模型在开发的早期测试反馈循环。这些在开发早期可用的模型通常在运行时被反馈循环的活动所使用，并且它们提供了一个合适的高级抽象来描述测试输入以及预期的测试结果。我们进一步概述了我们的想法，并通过一个小案例研究的一些初步评估结果。

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