DEVELOPING A FAULT ONTOLOGY ENGINE FOR EVALUATION OF SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE USING A CASE STUDY SYSTEM

Binka Gwynne, Jie Xu

2006

Abstract

This paper reports on the current progress of research into the development and implementation of a Fault Ontology Engine. The engine was devised to facilitate the testing and evaluation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), using ontologically supported software fault injection testing mechanisms. The aims of this research stem from the importance of system evaluation and the notion that testing and evaluation methods could be better supported for modern distributed systems by autonomous software machines, due to their potential dynamics, size, and complexity of SOA, and the variety of resources they offer. Fault injection testing is still generally in the domain of human expertise, experience and intuition, and machines require knowledge of testing mechanisms to develop testing strategies, with information that is formal, explicit, and in languages that they can interpret. This paper contains descriptions of experimental work carried out in order to generate information for modelling the fault and failure domains of a real-world case study system. Information from this case study system will be used to identify points of interest and target points for subsequent tests. It is hoped to show that inferences taken from known systems can be used for intelligent testing of unknown systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gwynne B. and Xu J. (2006). DEVELOPING A FAULT ONTOLOGY ENGINE FOR EVALUATION OF SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE USING A CASE STUDY SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-972-8865-69-6, pages 353-356. DOI: 10.5220/0001318803530356

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft06,
author={Binka Gwynne and Jie Xu},
title={DEVELOPING A FAULT ONTOLOGY ENGINE FOR EVALUATION OF SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE USING A CASE STUDY SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2006},
pages={353-356},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001318803530356},
isbn={978-972-8865-69-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - DEVELOPING A FAULT ONTOLOGY ENGINE FOR EVALUATION OF SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE USING A CASE STUDY SYSTEM
SN - 978-972-8865-69-6
AU - Gwynne B.
AU - Xu J.
PY - 2006
SP - 353
EP - 356
DO - 10.5220/0001318803530356