Automatic Generation of Interaction Models for Enterprise Software Environment Emulation

In modern enterprise software environments, software systems often need to cooperate with other systems to fulfil their responsibilities. A significant challenge is how to assure the quality of such software systems before deploying them in realistic software environment. Enterprise software environment emulation is an emerging technique for quality assurance. By replacing software systems with their corresponding interaction models, quality assurance engineers can conduct tests in an emulation environment with productionlike conditions. In order to create interaction models, previous approaches needed to manually specify interaction behaviours using protocol knowledge, which are very time-consuming and error-prone. In this paper, we propose a framework to automate the generation of interaction models via exploiting interaction traces, which can eliminate the manual effort for interaction modelling. Keywords-automatic modelling; environment emulation; interaction traces analysis;