MyP2PWorld: Highly Reproducible Application-Level Emulation of P2P Systems

In this paper, we describe an application-level emulator for P2P systems with a special focus on high reproducibility. We achieve reproduciblity by taking control over the scheduling of concurrent events from the operating system. We accomplish that for inter- and intra- peer concurrency. The development of the system was driven by the need to enhance the testing process of an already-developed industrial product. Therefore, we were constrained by the architecture of the overlying application. However, we managed to provide highly transparent emulation by wrapping standard/widely-used networking and concurrency APIs. The resulting environment has proven to be useful in a production environment. At this stage, it started to be general enough to be used in the testing process of applications other than the one it was created to test.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SASO
• Authors: Roberto Roverso, Mohammed Al-Aggan, Amgad Naiem, Andreas Dahlstrom, Sameh El-Ansary, Mohammed El-Beltagy, Seif Haridi
• Keywords: Already-developed Industrial Product, Application-level Emulator, SASO 2008, Self-Organizing Systems, Testing Process