Introducing automated environment configuration testing in an industrial setting

Caryna Pinheiro; Vahid Garousi; Frank Maurer; Jonathan Sillito

Introducing automated environment configuration testing in an industrial setting

Caryna Pinheiro^*, Vahid Garousi, Frank Maurer, Jonathan Sillito

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

This paper presents an automated environment configuration testing strategy developed as part of an action research project to deal with issues of staging environment instability in a large organization. We demonstrate how a suite of automated environment configuration tests provided an unobtrusive way to verify the hospitability of staging environments, decreased the time wasted on manual troubleshooting of environmental issues, and consolidated software configuration management information. The test strategy was also greatly welcomed by upper-level management and is now being expanded to other parts of the organization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
Pages	186-191
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 01 Dec 2010
Event	22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2010 - Redwood City, CA, United States Duration: 01 Jul 2010 → 03 Jul 2010

Conference

Conference	22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Redwood City, CA
Period	01/07/2010 → 03/07/2010

Keywords

Action research
Environment configuration
Software configuration management
Software development lifecycle
Staging
Test automation
Test strategy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Pinheiro, C, Garousi, V, Maurer, F & Sillito, J 2010, Introducing automated environment configuration testing in an industrial setting. in SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. pp. 186-191, 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2010, Redwood City, CA, United States, 01/07/2010.

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