Distributed systems testing is well studied and applied in industry, but there is significant IP and competitive advantage attached to it. For this reason, pape

Distributed systems testing is well studied and applied in industry, but there is significant IP and competitive advantage attached to it. For this reason, papers are rarely published. So, this world is not lost to everyone ;). You will see such expert frameworks defined and applied in aeronautics, military and transportation systems, for example. The key challenge is reproducibility of the testing. Central logging of events is not enough, you need some way to enforce or guarantee the global causal ordering of events. Leslie Lamport is recommended reading.