Process Related Test Message

Enterprise integration patterns [7, 8, 17, 18] are well-known for designing, building and deploying messaging solutions. Testing loosecoupled systems during productive operation is a challenge due to several reasons such as the time needed for delivering a message, co-existence with productive messages and some others. Integration on process level has emerged as a promising paradigm for managing enterprise application integration strategies. However, there is a missing link between established messaging infrastructures, utilising transport of messages and a processcoupled view on it. Testing and analysing the results are two tightly coupled and normally inseparable mechanisms. The messaging model used, as well as the test model and the term of end-to-end testing will be introduced. The idea of splitting a messaging infrastructure into different layers (business, logical, physical), in order to gain coherent test results for different business processes, is a novel approach. Likewise, injecting test messages on application-level during operation is a challenge. As a result, this paper proposes a pattern for an end-to-end test of loose-coupled systems on application level to ensure process-related testing through a logical grouping of the components involved.