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Testing methods and tools for
large scale distributed systems
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Lecturer:
Ramon Medrano Llamas
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All the answers at iCSC
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Testing is one essential component of the
quality assurance process of any software development project;
in particular, most of the systems developed nowadays are born
distributed: large backends that run in big data centers to
serve millions of clients. Is testing different for these large
scale systems? What are the testing methodologies applicable at
each phase? Are they different and if so why? What practical
tools are best suitable to implement these methodologies? How to
successfully integrate testing and profit in the new generation
of development processes? This series will review and compare
the testing methods and associated tools and will illustrate the
review with test cases from LHC experiments.
Targeted
audience :
Software developers involved in large-scale distributed
projects, and associated operational staff and managers
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A few questions addressed
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Tuesday
26 February |
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09:30 10:30 |
Lecture
6 |
Testing for development, deployment
and operation |
Ramon Medrano Llamas
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Description
This lectures is comprised of two
parts:
- tools and techniques for development and
deployment
- tools and methods for large scale
operation.
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In the first part,
new methodologies and tools that have arisen in the past
few years not only to help the development but also to
smoothly deploy features on live systems automatically
driven by test results will be presented and compared.
Keywords: SCM, agile
methodologies, TDD, continuous integration, cloud
deployments, legacy management, deployment rollback.
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In the second part,
modern methodologies and tools focused on operation will
be presented. Based on live testing, auto recovery and
proactive monitoring, they help reducing the fire
fighting overhead and increasing the autonomy of the
system.
Keywords: DevOps,
live testing, system wide profiling, autonomic
computing, monitoring.
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Audience
This theme is aimed at software developers interested in
automating the quality assurance process of their
software development projects and/or get a sneak peek on
latest testing tools.
It also targets those
involved in operation of computing systems willing to
improve and expedite their response to incidents and
requests.
Benefits
The attendees are expected to gain an overview of the
testing techniques, tools and motivations during the
development process and why testing automation is essential.
They will also get an overview of the new operational
techniques based on improved relationships between
development and operation teams.
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Pre-requisite
knowledge and dependencies
Little is required, but knowledge of
common software tool chains, classic software development
strategies and common software life will help fully benefit
from the lecture.
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