TEPaaS: test execution platform as-a-service applied in the context of e-health. (17th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lahami, Mariam; Krichen, Moez; Alroobaea, Roobaea
• Is Part Of: International journal of autonomous and adaptive communications systems. Volume 12:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 264
• Page End: 283
• Publication Date: 2019-07-17
• Subjects: distributed testing -- service-based systems -- cloud testing -- testing as-a-service -- TEPaaS -- e-health; Adaptive computing systems -- Periodicals; Wireless communication systems -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; 004.6
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-8632

Abstract

Runtime testing of large-scale systems running in dynamic and distributed environments is a costly and a resource consuming task. With the aim of handling such runtime validation activity in a cost effective manner, we introduce in this paper a scalable test execution platform deployed on the cloud, called test execution platform as-a-service (TEPaaS). The latter offers various testing capabilities provided as services like automatic test component deployment, test execution and test evaluation. A proof-of-concept prototype is developed and deployed on the Google cloud platform and also evaluated through several experiments. Based on this prototype, we validate an e-health case study implemented using web service technology and also deployed on the cloud.