NDLI: A Reusable Automated Acceptance Testing Architecture for Microservices in Behavior-Driven Development

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rahman, M. Gao, J.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA, USA (Rahman, M.; Gao, J.)
Abstract	Cloud Computing and Mobile Cloud Computing are reshaping the way applications are being developed and deployed due to their unique needs such as massive scalability, guaranteed fault tolerance, near zero downtime, etc. and also daunting challenges such as security, reliability, continuous deployment and update capability. Microservices architecture, where application is composed of a set of independently deployable services, is increasingly becoming popular due to its capability to address most of these needs and challenges. In recent years, the Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) has become one of the most popular agile software development processes, and frequently used in microservices development. The key to success of BDD is the executable acceptance tests that describe the expected behavior of a feature and its acceptance criteria in the form of scenarios using simple and business people readable syntax. The reusability, auditability, and maintainability become some of the major concerns when BDD test framework is applied for each microservice repository and no previous research addresses these concerns. In this paper, we present a reusable automated acceptance testing architecture to address all these concerns.
Starting Page	321
Ending Page	325
File Size	503062
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479983568
DOI	10.1109/SOSE.2015.55
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-03-30
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Boolean functions executable automated acceptance testing; Gherkin; functional testing; behavior-driven development; microservice Maintenance engineering Data structures Software Business Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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