Software testing for R3

Corda Blockchain
Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-founder,
Exactpro

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About Exactpro

Exactpro provides software testing services for mission critical technology that underpins global financial
markets. The firm is experienced with trading and clearing and settlement platforms, market data systems,
collateral management and risk management systems, central data warehouses, regulatory reporting, etc.

A specialist firm focused on functional Headquartered in the UK with

and non-functional testing of exchanges, operations in the US and Eastern
clearing houses, depositories, trade Europe. The clients are regulated by
repositories and other financial market the FCA, Bank of England and their
infrastructures. counterparts from other countries.

Part of the London Stock Exchange Incorporated in 2009 with 10 people,

Group (LSEG) from May 2015 until Exactpro is now employing over 580
January 2018, when the Exactpro specialists.
management proceeded through the
buyout of the company from LSEG.

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Exactpro Partners

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New FIX Working Group

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• Platforms
• People
• Processes
• Security

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Is Blockchain Financial Plumbing Still Years Away?

25 March 2019

https://www.coindesk.com/exactpro-dlt-post-trade-software-testing

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Journalism vs. Activism /
Software Testing vs. Proof of Concept

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No Testing for Conversational Assistants

Chatbot

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Public Relations Disaster vs. Research Breakthrough

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Meena is Unavailable to Talk

Quote:

“Also, tackling safety and bias in

the models is a key focus area for
us, and given the challenges
related to this, we are not
currently releasing an external
research demo”

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Meet Corda Enterprise

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Financial Services

Today
This is what I think This is what is
I am owed owed

Duplication of data

High fragmentation

Expensive reconciliations

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Reconciliations were Related to Major Outages

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Financial Services

Tomorrow
This is what I think I
am owed

Reduced data costs

Reduced operational risk

No inter-entity
reconciliations

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No Privacy

Traditional blockchains

This is what we This is what A

owe each other owes B!
This is what A
owes B!

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Segregation

Channels

This is what we This is what we

owe each other owe each other

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Enterprise Grade Blockchain

The Corda approach

I know facts
I know facts
2, 3 and 5
I know facts 2, 4 and 5
I know facts 1, 3 and 5
1, 2 and 4
I know facts
3, 4 and 5

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Our Greatest Weaknesses are Extensions of Our Strengths

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Typical Requirements for an Exchange System

Daily capacity - 100+ mln transactions

Peak rates - 40k+ transactions per second
Average round-trip latency - <100 microseconds
Availability - 100%

3000 trx 2.5 cm <1 mm

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 Testing in the fast chain
Dr. Moray Grieve, Head of QA

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 Enterprise grade blockchain platform enabling
distrusting parties to form and maintain consensus
about the existence, status and evolution of a set of
shared facts.

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Key Concepts
States
States are immutable objects that
represent shared facts such as a
financial agreement or contract at a
specific point in time
Contracts
Contracts control the evolution of
states by allowing relevant
participants to check for transaction
validity
Transactions
Transactions consume input states and
create output states. Newly created
output states replace the input states
which are marked as historic
Flows
Flows are light-weight processes used
to coordinate interactions required for
peers to create and agree transactions
The Network
Permissioned network with public identities allowing nodes to communicate
directly with each other

What it is What it does

Trust The single, long-term cryptographic It provides the basis of trust in the A Corda Network
Root key which all network‘s identity provenance of data, recognised by nodes
(X509) certificates root back to participants

Identity Admits new members onto the Performs 3 checks on new

Manager network via granting an identity certificate requests and grants
certificate based on passing the checks

Network A list of IP addresses and legal entity Acts as a Corda Network ‘phone
Map names of each participant on the directory’
network, which all participants can notary
access

Notary Node or cluster of notary nodes Prevents double-spend of input

states
Testing challenges

• Platform technology (build CorDapps to test the full API)

• Highly distributed (complexity in test automation)
• Heterogeneous networks (combinatorial explosion)
• Highly secure (cryptography, ledger consistency is everything)
• Eventually consistent (transaction flows can be complex)
• Evolutionary lifecycle (platform and CorDapp upgrades)
• Highly available (resiliency testing)
• Temporal (performance testing)
Testing challenges

• Platform technology (build CorDapps to test the full API)

• Highly distributed (complexity in test automation)
• Heterogeneous networks (combinatorial explosion)
• Highly secure (cryptography, ledger consistency is everything)
• Eventually consistent (transaction flows can be complex)
• Evolutionary lifecycle (platform and CorDapp upgrades)
• Highly available (resiliency testing)
• Temporal (performance testing)
Testing the Core Network

Test
Library

System
under
test

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Testing Distributed Applications

Test
Library

System
under
test

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Multi-Threaded Distributed Applications

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AI and Software
EXACTPRO Testing

https://www.gasq.org/en/exam-modules/a4q-ai-and-software-testing.html

There are three chapters with examinable content. The top-level heading for each
chapter specifies the time for the chapter; timing is not provided below chapter level.
For the A4Q AI and Software Testing Foundation training course, the syllabus
requires a minimum of 17 hours, 10 minutes of instruction, distributed across the
three chapters as follows:

Chapter 1: AI and Software Testing Background 360 minutes

Chapter 2: Testing Artificial Intelligence Systems 400 minutes
Chapter 3: Using AI to Support Testing 270 minutes

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AI Testing
EXACTPRO Software Challenges

Non-Deterministic Probabilistic Non-Testable Oracle Problem

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Non-deterministic Systems: Financial Market Infrastructures

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Indirect Testing
EXACTPRO Methods

Whatever it Information
End-to-End takes! extraction and
Automated Test
Machine learning
Library

Test execution
data and log
Passive Testing
analysis

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Ability to Generalize:
EXACTPRO
Scope of End-to-End and Negative Testing

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PEAS Model

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 PEAS Model

Performance

Sensors

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NT

Environment

Actuators
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Actuators

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Sensors

Sensors

AGE
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Environment

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Lively Debate

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 PEAS Model

Performance

Sensors

AGE
NT

Environment

Actuators
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Software Testers

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 Data Lake

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Metamorphic Testing

Adult
sin(x) = sin(x + 2𝜋) 3
sin(x) = sin(𝜋 - x)
Pupa
2

Larva
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Thank you

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