01359nas a2200193 4500008004100000022001400041245004600055210004400101300001400145490000700159520083700166653002101003653002101024653002001045100001601065700002001081700001501101856004901116 2009 eng d a1084-804500aA Virtual Environment for Network Testing0 aVirtual Environment for Network Testing a184–2140 v323 a
The testing of network-based solutions demands a series of tedious tasks such as the deployment of the solution at different nodes and the configuration of different topologies. The manual execution of these tasks is very time consuming and a configurable environment to facilitate these tasks and consequently improve testing performance is desired. In this paper a virtual network environment that can be easily re-configured is presented to address this problem. The environment has been evaluated by a series of case studies: one dealing with the deployment and containment of a worm propagation attack and one dealing with detecting a denial of service attack. Three smaller case studies have also been developed. The results are a clear indication of the flexibility and usefulness of the virtual network environment.
10aRe-configuration10aSoftware testing10aVirtual network1 aFagen, Wade1 aCangussu, João1 aDantu, Ram uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2008.03.008