Testing and evaluation framework for virtualization technologies

Virtualization technology has attracted considerable attention in recent years. With the increasing popularity of virtualization technology, how to evaluate and ensure its correctness and quality becomes a critical issue. Several methods are proposed to test and evaluate functionalities, performance and quality of different virtualization technologies. However, the testing and evaluation tasks are still complex and time consuming. In this paper, a testing and evaluation framework for virtualization technologies is introduced. The framework aims to provide an integrated environment for software testers from test environment configuration, usage scenario deployment to automatic test and evaluation execution that helps to achieve the functional and quality evaluation of virtualization technologies efficiently. Furthermore, the testing and evaluation framework is built by several well-known open source software, which decreases the deployment cost and retains certain flexibility for further extension.