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Live Testing of Cloud Services: A Framework and Lessons Learned

2025· article· W7117980404 on OpenAlexafffund
Oussama Jebbar, Ferhat Khendek

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware-Defined Networks and 5G
Canadian institutionsConcordia UniversityUniversité du Québec à Chicoutimi
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCloud computingSoftware deploymentProduction (economics)ScalabilitySet (abstract data type)ArchitectureDevelopment environmentIntegration testing

Abstract

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Cloud services enable cloud-native architectures for 5G networks. They enable rapid and scalable deployment of cloud- native network functions and services. These cloud services need to be tested thoroughly in the development environment as well as in the production environment because of the differences between these environments. Current practices focus on executing the test cases in the production environment without disturbing the system usage. However, these practices have limitations as they only apply to specific types of components or features. We propose a solution for live testing cloud services in the production environment. Our solution consists of a framework based on an architecture and a set of methods. The goal of such architecture is to automate testing activities in the production environment, and enable testing services in the production environment while avoiding test interferences. While giving an overall picture of our solution on live testing we also draw a set of lessons that may be relevant and useful for other software engineering activities that are usually conducted in the production environment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.791
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.044
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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