Towards a framework for testing and simulating self adaptive systems

Self adaptive systems have been suggested as a promising solution for managing the complex and uncertain nature of today's software intensive systems. Yet, their design is still not conducted in a systematic manner. In particular, there is little work on the issue of developing a framework that accommodates the necessary reusable process elements and system components that augment the system under development with the self adaptation capabilities and enable the system developer to simulate and test these capabilities prior to deployment. In this paper, we attempted to address this issue and propose a testing framework for self adaptive systems. Only the high level requirements and a conceptual architecture of the framework are presented here. The self adaptive capability is designed around the feedback control loop proposed by IBM blueprint.