Distributed testing framework based on ECF RFC 119 D-OSGi

Project Lead: Markus Alexander Kuppe (IRC: lemmy)

Mentor: Scott Lewis

This project is part of the Google Summer of Code 2009

Abstract

The goal of this project is to plan, design and setup a distributed testing framework for ECF. Furthermore it is about implementing (additional) tests as well as completing the current incarnation of ECF's version [2] of distributed OSGI (RFC 119) [3] specified in R4.2 by the OSGi Enterprise Expect group due this summer [3].

On top of that I intent to identify requirements and architectural design possibilites to extent well known testing tools like JUnit to better support distribution scenarios. The second part will later be used in my M.Sc. studies at University of Hamburg at the "Distributed Systems and Information Systems" department [4].

[1] https://ecf2.osuosl.org/hudson/

[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/249240

[3] http://www.osgi.org/download/osgi-4.2-early-draft.pdf

[4] http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/

Ping me on IRC or Jabber for details, question, comments or criticism. :-)

Legend

Needs some investigation/research

Work in progress

Bug fixed / Feature added

Timeline

Here is a complete list of the milestones and release candidates planned for this plugin.

Milestone	Date	Planned items
M1	Week 1-3	Research, Requirements gathering
M2	Week 4-6	Complete missing ECF build parts and move to git, Setup distributed scheduler (Hudson), Configure machines and network (VPN...) at OSU to support discovery mechanisms
M3	Week 7-9	Add missing distribution and discovery tests, Fix bugs that arise from better test coverage :-)
M4	Week 10-12	Documentation, General requirements and design specifications, Lessons learned

Community Involvement

Getting the source

The code will be available from the regular ECF repo at dev.eclipse.org

Open issues

TBD

New ideas

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