ElasTest is an EU-funded project that provides an elastic platform for testing complex distributed software systems. It focuses on end-to-end testing by providing infrastructure, services, tools for emulating real-world conditions, troubleshooting test failures, and enabling communication between team members. The project aims to make testing large applications easier, less time-consuming and provide more tools. It is demonstrated through four real-world use cases and developers are encouraged to provide feedback to help improve the platform.

1. https://elastest.io
ElasTest
Funded by the
European Union
Testing in the Large
Life-cycle is too short not
to use ElasTest
Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Francisco Gortázar, URJC, Madrid, Spain
Italian Software Testing Forum 2018

2. ElasTest project
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ElasTest is a project funded by the European Commission
ElasTest: an elastic platform for testing complex distributed large software
systems
Duration: From 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Total cost: EUR 5 031 187,50
EU contribution: EUR 4 270 187
Coordinated in: Spain
Topic(s): ICT-10-2016 - Software Technologies
Call for proposal: H2020-ICT-2016-1

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Coordinator

4. Problem statement
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Cost of testing: 26% of total IT cost
Estimation for 2020: 32% of total IT cost
Capgemini World Quality Report 2017/2018

5. Problem statement
Testing large complex distributed applications
is hard
is time consuming
lacks / too many tools
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End to end tests...
require some infrastructure
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7. Problem statement
End to end tests...
require a lot of effort
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8. Problem statement
End to end tests...
running under real-world
conditions is hard to achieve
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9. Problem statement
End to end tests...
lack tools for
troubleshooting failures
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10. ElasTest objectivesElasTest focuses on end-to-end testing providing
infrastructure
services
emulation of real-world conditions
troubleshooting tools
communication among team members
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https://elastest.io

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12. ElasTest objectivesWhat about my tests?
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node{
elastest(tss: ['EUS']) {
stage("Preparation") {
git "https://github.com/elastest/full­teaching­experiment.git"
}
stage("Start SUT") {
sh "cd docker­compose/full­teaching­env; docker­compose up ­d"
sh "sleep 20"
}
stage("Test") {
def sutIp = containerIp("fullteachingenv_full­teaching_1")
try {
sh "mvn ­Dapp.url=https://" + sutIp +":5001/ test"
} finally {
sh "cd docker­compose/full­teaching­env; docker­compose down"
}
}
}
}
Use ElasTest Plugin with Browsers
Start SUT
Get web container IP
Teardown SUT
Execute Tests

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Four real world demonstrators:
• Web applications (ATOS)
• WebRTC - videoconferencing (NAEVATEC)
• 5G - telecommunications (FRAUNHOFER)
• IoT - Industry 4.0 (TUB)

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Reality check
• Extensive experimentation
continuously ongoing on the
four demonstrators
• All data will be made available
from the project web site

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Roadmap
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September
– Laptop and cloud versions ready
End 2018
– Version 1.0 (ready for production
environments)
2019 and beyond.
– Stay tuned

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ElasTest is a game changer that
lets you run complex tests
against modern applications,
enabling novel ways of testing,
collecting information at runtime,
improving communication across
teams, and providing a whole new
set of analysis tools, and more
importantly this can be done
effortlessly and without
disruption thanks to our Jenkins and
TestLink integrations

31. Survey
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We want to build the better possible platform
for integration and system testing
Input from the industry is key for succeeding
You can help us help you by filling in this short
survey: https://elastest.io/survey/

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Watch our videos at our YouTube channel
Subscribe to our user list at https://elastest.io
Star our repo https://github.com/elastest/elastest

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