Discovering Context Dependent Service Models for Stateful Service Virtualization

Today’s enterprise software systems are connected with several heterogeneous software components and services to serve growing business requirements. The testing of such an enterprise system is a challenging task as the access to the dependent components/services is not always possible due to security, cost or unavailability. The existing service virtualization techniques only consider stateless services and the simulation of the stateful services is still unexplored. A novel technique to derive service models for stateful service has been proposed in this thesis, which enables testing of an enterprise system without requiring access to the dependent services.