Progetto "Quality and Validation of Software Architectures"

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Progetto "Quality and Validation of Software
Architectures"

• Resp. Antonia Bertolino

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Project Goals

• Rigorous approaches to Assess, Analyse and Test
  Complex Systems
• Based on the notion of SA
• Cost-effective Methods and Tools usable in
  industrial context (UML)
• Scaling-up academic results and technology
  transfer of concepts techniques (bring
  state-of-art to state-of-practice)

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Integration Testing

• Testing interactions (only) between system
  components (processes, packages, subsystems...)
  at an appropriate level of abstraction
• SA Structure Behavior
• (statics) (dynamics)

Architecture-based Testing
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Activities

• Automated derivation of test cases for
  integration and system test

• COW-Test, UIT gt COW-Suite
• Distributed SAs (Middleware, Component-based
  approach)

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Currently

• COW-suite development
• UIT fine-tuning, manual application to ERI Case
  Study (GSM on the net)
• Started study of mutual relationships between SA
  and underlying Middleware
• Quantitative methods to control test phases
  continuously going-on

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Team

• Young
• Francesca Basanieri, AR
• Eda Marchetti, PhD Student
• Andrea Polini, PhD Student

Staff
(or old?)
Antonia Bertolino, Alberto Ribolini - IEI Gaetano
Lombardi, Giovanni Nucera - ERI
Ext. Coll. Raffaela Mirandola, Paola Inverardi,
Henry Muccini
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Milestones

• Mid-2000 Start project for UML-based test
• Oct00 Checkpoint with ERI of Method UIT -gt need
  for strategy to manage tests
• Dec00 Conceived Method COW
• Tool COW-Suite started
• Jan01 Andreas PhD starts

Planned...
June UIT part of COW-Suite ready
preliminary workplan for SAMiddlew By the end of
the year complete COW-Suite prototype released