VATS: Virtualized-aware Automated Test Service

Proceedings - 5th International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, QEST 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-102

  Gaisbauer, Sebastian ^a   Kirschnick, Johannes ^a   Edwards, Nigel ^a   Rolia, Jerry ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic management; Cloud computing; Performance testing; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MILITARY ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED TESTS; AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT; CASE STUDIES; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURES; INFRA STRUCTURES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATORS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; RUNNING IN; SAP SYSTEMS; SERVICE PROVIDERS; SHARED RESOURCES; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATION; VIRTUALIZED RESOURCES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 56649094553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/QEST.2008.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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