Speaker
Dr
Alberto Di Meglio
(CERN)
Description
The ETICS system is a distributed software configuration, build and test system
designed to fulfill the needs to improve the quality, reliability and
interoperability of distributed software in general and grid software in
particular. The ETICS project is a consortium of five partners (CERN, INFN,
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, 4D Soft and the University of Wisconsin-
Madison). The ETICS service consists of a build and test job execution system
based on the NMI/Metronome software and an integrated set of web services
and software engineering tools to design, maintain and control build and
validation scenarios. The ETICS system allows taking into account complex
dependencies among applications and middleware components and provides a
rich environment to perform static and dynamic analysis of the software and
execute deployment, system and interoperability tests. This presentation gives
an overview of the system architecture and functionality set and then describes
how the EGEE, DILIGENT and OMII-Europe projects are using the software
engineering services to build, validate and distribute their software. Finally a
number of significant use and test cases will be described to show how ETICS
can be used in particular to perform interoperability tests of grid middleware
using the grid itself.
Primary author
Dr
Alberto Di Meglio
(CERN)
