Research and Implementation of Key Techniques of Osgi Integration Testing Platform

Abstract:

The innovation and development of software and information technology has stimulated the mature of service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform technology, while the loosely coupled, modular, dynamic loading feature of OSGi service platform has made itself a popular architecture within the SOA community. To embody the advantages of the OSGi framework application with a longer lifecycle and ensure the quality of OSGi applications, we need to run a series of rigorous testing, especially integration testing. Existing tools do not support separation of testing and development, testing records playback or redundant test cases auto-generation. In this paper, we have analyzed the current OSGi testing techniques and tools as well as their inadequacies. Our research into OSGi testing technology has enlightened us to expand the function of the testing tools on the basis of Pax-exam and then integrate them into the OSGi testing platform. Finally, we discuss the framework design of our OSGi integration testing platform and demonstrate the correctness and validity of the platform.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 791-793)
• Pages: 936-940
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.791-793.936
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Fa Gui Liu, Yu Song Peng, Nan He, Ying Yi Yang, Jin Yang, Xiao Ke Zhang
• Keywords: Integration Testing Platform, OSGi Testing, Pax-Exam, Test Case

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