Quokka: visualising interactions of enterprise software environment emulators

Authors:
Cameron Hine;Jean-Guy Schneider;Jun Han;Steve Versteeg
Affiliations:
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia;Swinburne University of Technology, Australia;Swinburne University of Technology, Australia;CA Labs, Australia
Venue:
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Enterprise software systems operate in large-scale, heterogeneous, distributed environments which makes assessment of non-functional properties, such as scalability and robustness, of those systems particularly challenging. Enterprise environment emulators can provide test-beds representative of real environments using only a few physical hosts thereby allowing assessment of the non-functional properties of enterprise software systems. To date, analysing outcomes of these tests has been an ad hoc and somewhat tedious affair; largely based on manual and/or script-assisted inspection of interaction logs. Quokka visualises emulations significantly aiding analysis and comprehension. Emulated interactions can be viewed live (in real-time) as well as be replayed at a later stage, furthermore, basic charts are used to aggregate and summarise emulations, helping to identify performance and scalability issues.