MINER can very well be used to perform system tests of distributed systems, applications,  protocols, etc. Therefore MINER can be a valuable tool in support of the general software development process and/or quality assurance activities.

The automated activation of MINER experiments from a Continuous Integration system can be particularly useful.  As an example, a Continuous Integration system could trigger the following actions upon the commit to a specific branch of the source code repository:

• compile the sources, run unit tests and create build artifacts
• install the software in the testbed
• run the set of MINER experiments that perform functional system tests
• optionally: if the functional tests are successful, run another set of MINER experiments dedicated to system performance evaluation.
• create a report

Reference project

• Using MINER for testing the distributed system MINER ;).  The experiments are triggered from the Jenkins CI system.