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cycles, which supposes that testers tend to pay scant
attention to automated end-to-end test suites. As a
result, this kind of tests is usually abandoned or
poorly performed.
This paper introduces ElasTest, an open source
platform aimed to ease end-to-end tests for
heterogenous large distributed systems. The mision
of ElasTest is to make easier the developers’ life. To
that aim, among other capabilities, ElasTest
implements what we can call User Impersonation as
a Service (UIaaS). This service enables the
impersonation of end-users’ in their tests through
GUI instrumentation. This service provides full
compatibility with external browser/mobile drivers,
but enhanced with extra capabilities, such as event
subscription, log gathering, or advance media
capabilities for WebRTC applications. This service
have be built extending the W3C WebDriver
specification, and therefore, popular technologies
such as Selenium and Appium are completely
compatible with ElasTest.
At the moment of this writing, ElasTest is still in
its infancy. Therefore, some features are still under
development. For instance, the measurent of the end-
users’ perceived QoE is still ongoing. Measuring
QoE is in general a complex topic and this task shall
perform the appropriate research activities for
evaluating the most suitable way of doing it, which
may involve simple mechanisms such as evaluation
of response-time from the GUI.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been supported by the European
Commission under projects NUBOMEDIA (FP7-
ICT-2013-1.6, GA-610576), and ElasTest (H2020-
ICT-10-2016, GA-731535); by the Regional
Government of Madrid (CM) under project
Cloud4BigData (S2013/ICE-2894) cofunded by FSE
& FEDER; and Spanish Government under project
LERNIM (RTC-2016-4674-7) cofunded by the
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, FEDER
& AEI.
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