Virtual Environments for Improved Enterprise Software Deployment

该项目旨在提高企业IT的质量保证。企业IT系统高度互连和相互依赖-一个系统的故障可能导致多个系统的故障级联，使业务陷入停顿。该项目旨在创建新技术，以自动提供虚拟部署环境来测试企业系统。特别是，它的目的是开发新的方法，自动分析服务交互痕迹和准确的可执行服务模型的生成，而不需要明确的知识。自动分析和生成可以降低企业IT系统的开发成本，提高系统质量和可靠性。该项目的新软件部署技术旨在大大减少软件开发机构进行系统质量保证活动的时间、精力和成本，同时生产更高质量的软件，从而使所有行业的最终用户组织的业务运营不间断。

This project aims to improve quality assurance for enterprise IT. Enterprise IT systems are highly interconnected and interdependent — a failure in one system can cause a cascade of failures across multiple systems, bringing business to a standstill. The project aims to create new technologies to automate the provisioning of virtual deployment environments to test the enterprise systems. In particular, it aims to develop new methods for the automatic analysis of service interaction traces and the generation of accurate executable service models, without requiring explicit knowledge of them. The automatic analysis and generation should reduce development cost for enterprise IT systems and increase system quality and reliability. The new software deployment technologies from this project aim to significantly reduce the time, effort and cost of system quality assurance activities in software development organisations, and yet produce higher-quality software leading to uninterrupted business operation in end-user organisations across all sectors.