Testing mobile and distributed systems: method and experimentation

  • Authors:
  • Patrice Laurençot;Sébastien Salva

  • Affiliations:
  • LIMOS, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubière, France;LIMOS, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, Aubière, France

  • Venue:
  • OPODIS'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Mobile and distributed systems are generally composed of components which interact together with input/output events by using a least a mobile network (GSM, wireless lan), and eventually others heterogeneous ones. Such systems are generally complex so they need to be tested in order to check their reliability. However, no distributed testing tool is proposed. In this paper, we propose a complete method to test such systems and an experimentation which aims to test a WAP application. From a formal specification, the testing method generates test cases and deploys them on a test architecture. This one is composed of several testers which must be synchronized for testing. For the experimentation, we have implemented: a distributed test architecture composed of several testers, a WAP architecture and a WAP application. The experimentation results show that the testing method can be used in practice.