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系统是高度互连和相互依赖的——一个系统中的故障可能导致跨多个系统的一连串故障，从而使业务陷入停顿。该项目旨在创建新技术，以自动提供虚拟部署环境，以测试企业系统。特别是，它旨在开发新的方法来自动分析服务交互跟踪和生成准确的可执行服务模型，而不需要对它们有明确的了解。自动化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。来自该项目的新软件部署技术旨在显著减少软件开发组织中系统质量保证活动的时间、精力和成本，并产生更高质量的软件，从而在所有部门的最终用户组织中实现不间断的业务操作。

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.