JoT: A Jolie framework for testing microservices

Saverio Giallorenzo; Fabrizio Montesi; Marco Peressotti; Florian Rademacher; Narongrit Unwerawattana

doi:10.1016/j.scico.2024.103215

JoT: A Jolie framework for testing microservices

Saverio Giallorenzo^*, Fabrizio Montesi, Marco Peressotti, Florian Rademacher, Narongrit Unwerawattana

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We present JoT, a testing framework for Microservice Architectures (MSAs) based on technology agnosticism, a core principle of microservices. The main advantage of JoT is that it reduces the amount of work for a) testing for MSAs whose services use different technology stacks, b) writing tests that involve multiple services, and c) reusing tests of the same MSA under different deployment configurations or after changing some of its components. In JoT, tests are orchestrators that can both consume or offer operations from/to the MSA under test. The language for writing JoT tests is Jolie, which provides constructs that support technology agnosticism and the definition of terse test behaviours.

Original language	English
Article number	103215
Journal	Science of Computer Programming
Volume	240
ISSN	0167-6423
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2024.103215
Publication status	Published - Feb 2025

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Microservice architectures
Service-oriented programming
Testing frameworks

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JoT: A Jolie Framework for Testing Microservices
Giallorenzo, S., Montesi, F., Peressotti, M., Rademacher, F. & Unwerawattana, N., 2023, Coordination Models and Languages - 25th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2023, Held as Part of the 18th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2023, Proceedings. Jongmans, S.-S. & Lopes, A. (eds.). Springer Science+Business Media, p. 172-191 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 13908 LNCS).
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