Splitter: A Proxy-based Approach for Post-Migration Testing of Web Applications

The benefits of virtualized IT environments, such as compute clouds, have drawn interested enterprises to migrate their applications onto new platforms to gain the advantages of reduced hardware and energy costs, increased flexibility and deployment speed, and reduced management complexity. However, the process of migrating a complex application takes a considerable amount of effort, particularly when performing post-migration testing to verify that the application still functions correctly in the target environment. The traditional approach of test case generation and execution can take weeks and synthetic test cases may not adequately reflect actual application usage. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a black-box approach for post-migration testing of Web applications without manually creating test cases. A Web proxy is put in front of the production application to intercept all requests from real users, and these requests are simultaneously sent to the production and migrat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: EUROSYS
• Authors: Xiaoning Ding, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shaikh, Brian Peterson, Xiaodong Zhang
• Keywords: Actual Application Usage, Computer Science, Eurosys 2010, Reverse Web Proxy, Synthetic Test Cases, System Software