Automatic Ex-Vivo Regression Testing of Microservices
Microservice-based applications consist of multiple services that can evolve independently. When services are modified, they are typically tested before being deployed. However, the test suites that are executed are usually designed without the exact knowledge about how the services will be accessed and used in the field, therefore they may easily miss relevant test scenarios, failing to prevent the deployment of faulty services. To address this problem, we introduce ExVivoMicroTest, an approach that analyzes the execution of deployed services at runtime in the field, in order to generate test cases for future versions of the same services. ExVivoMicroTest exploits cloud technologies, containers in particular, to generate a mocked environment that fully isolates the service under test from the rest of the system. It then reproduces service interactions as previously analyzed, thus testing the new version of the service against usage scenarios that capture the field usages of its earlier versions. We evaluate our approach on an open sourced microservices application and show that ExVivoMicroTest can effectively reveal faults based on automatically collected data.
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14:00 10mResearch paper | Exploratory Datamorphic Testing of Classification Applications AST | ||
14:10 10mResearch paper | Algorithm or Representation? An Empirical Study on How SAPIENZ Achieves Coverage AST Iván Arcuschin Moreno University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Juan Pablo Galeotti University of Buenos Aires, Diego Garbervetsky University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina Pre-print | ||
14:20 10mResearch paper | Automatic Ex-Vivo Regression Testing of Microservices AST Luca Gazzola Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Maayan Goldstein Nokia Bell Labs, Israel, Leonardo Mariani University of Milano Bicocca, Itai Segall Nokia Bell-Labs, Luca Ussi University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy File Attached | ||
14:30 10mResearch paper | Validating Test Case Migration via Mutation Analysis AST Ivan Jovanovikj Paderborn University, Enes Yigitbas University of Paderborn, Germany, Achyuth Nagaraj Paderborn University, Stefan Sauer Paderborn University, Gregor Engels Paderborn University Pre-print | ||
14:40 10mShort-paper | Automated Analysis of Flakiness-mitigating Delays AST Jean Malm Malardalen University, Adnan Causevic Mälardalen University, Björn Lisper Malardalen University, Sigrid Eldh Ericsson, Sweden | ||
14:50 10mShort-paper | The Power of String Solving: Simplicity of Comparison AST Mitja Kulczynski Kiel University, Florin Manea University of Göttingen, Dirk Nowotka Kiel University, Danny Bøgsted Poulsen Aalborg University |