1. Testing in an Open-source Middleware
Platform Space: The WSO2 Way
Iranga Muthuthanthri
Technical Lead -QA

2. About WSO2
• Providing the only complete open source componentized cloud platform
o Dedicated to removing all the stumbling blocks to enterprise agility
o Enabling you to focus on business logic and business value
• Recognized by leading analyst firms as visionaries and leaders
o Gartner cites WSO2 as visionaries in all 3 categories of application infrastructure
o Forrester places WSO2 in top 2 for API Management
• Global corporation with offices in USA, UK & Sri Lanka
o 200+ employees and growing
• Business model of selling comprehensive support & maintenance for our products

3. About WSO2

4. Agenda
• Engineering process at WSO2.
• Product & Release Management.
• Testing Process at WSO2.
• Patch Verification Process.

5. Testament
The Problem:
• eBay wanted to move away from a home-grown middleware solution to a commercial ESB
• Required very fast response times (< 5ms)
• Benchmarked 10 ESBs
• Including Proprietary, Open Source, Hardware Solutions
• WSO2 was the only ESB to support their performance and manageability requirements
• 2-3x faster than the other software based solutions on eBay’s workload.
The Solution:
• 1.5 billion API calls during peak times (prior to 2011 Holiday season & Black Friday)
• No downtime experienced during 2010 & 2011 holiday peaks!

6. WSO2 Engineering

7. Engineering Process
Doing the "right" thing in the "collaborative" way to make
people "happy".

8. People Centric Process
•
• People centric process.
• User-engineer engagement model.
• Promotes constant communication in push mode give
and receive feedback.
• Build products users actually use and want.
• Get the "buy-in" from engineers to follow the process
instead of pushing down a model.

9. Influenced by Apache Way
Communit
y
Openness

10. Passion & Commitment

11. Elements (in) Process
•
• Product management.
• Milestone model.
• Release model.
• Support model.

12. Product Management Relationship

13. Milestone Model

14. Release Cycle

15. Done-Done

16. Support Model
•
• No Support Engineers.
• Engineering runs Support.
• SLA is Now!.
• Engineers understand the real usage of their creation.
• Engineers gets to know customers problems and pain.
• Learning hub to understand platform aspects.
Makes the next release cycle "Better".

17. Product
One Product
One Code Base
One Build Command
One Team

18. WSO2 Platform

19. WSO2 Testing Principles
•
• Quality is #1 priority of Engineering practice.
• Engineering owns and is responsible for quality.
• Everyone in Engineering does testing.
• Collaborative Test methodology.

20. Agile Testing Principles
Based on Agile principles
• Test early test often.
• Face to Face communication (Hackathon mode).
• Responsive to change.
• Frequent feedback.

21. SOA-Middleware Testing Challenges
•
• Complexity of testing due to "Headless" state.
• Difficulty in defect isolation.
• Distribution nature of production deployment environments.
• Multiple configuration points for component integrations.

22. SOA Middleware Test Practice
Data Server
Oracle/MySQ
Service L/MSSQL ...
Client
(Browser/ ESB
App)
Registry
Service
Identity
LDAP/AD..
Service

23. Types of Tests
•
• Unit Tests.
• Integration Tests.
• End to End Tests.
• Performance Tests.
• Security Tests.

24. Integration Level Phase
•
• Objective is to validate the integration scenarios of
heterogeneous WSO2 products.
E.g: The ESB - Message Broker integration scenario.

25. End to End Tests
•
• Platform aspects of testing.
• Objective is to validate that the platform provides an
application developer to build and launch the application in an
enterprise context.
E.g:
Authorize a request to a deployed web service in app server
through the entitlement mediator defined in the ESB referring to
the entitlement policy defined at the identity server.

26. Performance Tests
• Performance Tests to Measure:
o Throughput = requests served per second (data rate
/sec).
o Latency = How long each transaction takes ( time
between requests).

27. Reliability Tests
•
• Endurance tests:
o Long running tests : Tests running for a significant
periods of time (days,weeks).
• Volume tests:
o System loaded with incremental # of services, artifacts.

28. Security Tests
Security tests for the following threats are executed.
Threat Types of tests
Spoofing Authentication
Tampering Signature
Privilege Authorization
Information Disclosure Encryption

29. Cloud Testing
Test the Cloud native features for
• Multi Tenancy.
• Elasticity.
• Self Service.
• Billing & Metering.

30. "Dogfood" Tests
•
• Dogfood testing is about using own products for real
usage.
• Internal Patch Management Tool system developed
using WSO2 G-reg product.
• Usage introduced Product enhancements suggested
by Engineers.

31. Team

32. Team
•
• Recognized as Team of the Year - 2010.
• Technically skilled team.
• 6+ years experienced SOA Testers.
• WSO2 Product experts.
• Apache Committers.
• Authors and reviewers of published books on SOA .

33. Tools

34. Test Cycles

35. The release life-cycle...
• Run integration tests
• Commit automated test cases Download builds
• Fix regression issues of automated
tests
• Commit quality code Tester
(new code, bug fixes)
Automation Engineer Report Jira
Release candidate
Developer
Fix Jira
Report Jira
Users (Community /
Customers)

36. Release Calendar

37. Tester...
Phase 1 - Test Planning
• For new products
- prepare detailed test plans for all features.
• For mature products
- add test cases for new features.
E.g.:-
https://docs.google.com/a/wso2.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvhVRxNoCg0KdHRVMm1pM2x
LUDREajdHRVlQekJRcUE#gid=20

38. Sources for Designing Test Plans
Support Issues
QSPs & Client
engagements POCs
Architecture &
Design Reviews
Samples
Competitive
Products

39. Tester...
Phase 2 - Generate Artifacts
• Create artifacts for each test scenario
- webapps, axis2 services
- synapse configurations
- configurable governance artifacts
- Jmeter scripts (to create APIs, publish, subscribe &
invoke in bulk)
- scripts for endurance testing
E.g.: - https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/commons/qa/qa-artifacts

40. Tester...
Phase 3 (cycle 1) - Test Execution
• Setup product platforms in test lab
(with clustering/caching/mounting).
• Prioritize & execute selected set of test cases on
platform setups.
• Report all L1s, L2s, L3s, etc (issues related to UI,
features, samples & documentation).
• Update test progress in the test plan.

41. Developer...
Cycle 2
•Fix L1s, L2s, etc.
•Continue functional & non-functional testing.
•Run integration tests.

42. Tester...
Phase 3 (cycle 2) - Test Execution
• Verify all fixed issues in new build.
• Execute test cases and report more issues.
Phase 3 (cycle n) - Test Execution
• Do final round of testing (smoke test) on final RC (Release
Candidate).
• If no more L1s are found, release the product.

43. Automation Engineer...
• Automates
- UI & other features (security, throttling, etc).
- certain platform scenarios.
- volume test scenarios.
- certain performance test scenarios.

44. Automation Engineer...
• Code coverage for some products
Product LOC coverage Class coverage
ESB 38% 66%
G-Reg 46% 65%
DSS 49% 73%
CEP 57% 74%
MB 47% 90%

45. Support Patch Verification Process
Reports JIRA
Customer
Release the patch to the
customer
• Receives the JIRA Private
• Post the first response SVN
Signs the patch if successful
Checkout the patch &
Commits the patch verify the fix
Simulate customer
Support setup in test lab
Engineer
Provides information on Tester
the issue
Add integration tests for the patch
Public
SVN
Developer / Commits the fix for future releases
Automation Engineer

46. Future...
, Support Team

47. Q & A.

48. Engage with WSO2.

49. Engage with WSO2.