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Solving the Instance Identification Problem in Micro-service Testing

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Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2021)

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Micro-service architecture has become a standard software architecture style, with loosely coupled, specified, and implemented services owned by small teams and independently deployable. In particular, with the emergence of managed services, deployment aspects have to be addressed explicitly. While tools and frameworks support micro-service developers in developing and unit-testing their services, less attention has been given to higher testing levels, particularly to the integration testing phase. This paper identifies aspects that limit the expressiveness of integration testing in the context of managed micros-services and function as a service. We propose the introduction of instance identification to overcome these limitations and illustrate how instance identification can be used to enhance integration testing’s expressiveness.

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Notes

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    In this paper, we are not discussing test case generation or test case evaluation strategies but concentrate on the minimum requirements that any testing strategy implies, interacting with a group of components at the edges and evaluating observations.

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    While we do not limit the application of IIDs in different protocols, we are focusing here on the HTTP.

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    The assignment and communication of authorization keys is outside the scope of this paper and will be discussed in the future.

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    The assignment and communication of authorization keys is outside the scope of this paper and will be discussed in the future.

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Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) under grant no. 16DII113. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions to improve the presented ideas in this paper.

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    Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles

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  2. Middlesex University, London, UK

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  3. Telecom SudParis, Evry Cedex, France

    Ana Rosa Cavalli

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Vassiliou-Gioles, T. (2022). Solving the Instance Identification Problem in Micro-service Testing. In: Clark, D., Menendez, H., Cavalli, A.R. (eds) Testing Software and Systems. ICTSS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04673-5_15

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