A comparative evaluation of state-of-the-art web service composition testing approaches

Rusli, Hazlifah Mohd; Puteh, Mohd Hafiz; Ibrahim, Suhaimi; Tabatabaei, Sayed Gholam Hassan

doi:10.1145/1982595.1982602

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“…Service testing has been researched in the last years; comprehensive surveys on this topic can be found in the literature (Canfora and Di Penta, 2009;Rusli et al, 2011;Palacios et al, 2011;Bozkurt et al, 2012). The research on service testing has been motivated by factors that affect the testing of this kind of applications.…”

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Model based testing of service oriented applications

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Model based testing of service oriented applications

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“…Adequately and effectively testing WS-BPEL service composi-tions is necessary when they are used to execute missioncritical business processes. Some efforts have been reported to test service compositions [3], [23]. We next describe several closely related studies on testing WS-BPEL service compositions.…”

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Automated Testing of WS-BPEL Service Compositions: A Scenario-Oriented Approach

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Zhao

Lin

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.

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Nowadays, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become one mainstream paradigm for developing distributed applications. As the basic unit in SOA, Web services can be composed to construct complex applications. The quality of Web services and their compositions is critical to the success of SOA applications. Testing, as a major quality assurance technique, is confronted with new challenges in the context of service compositions. In this paper, we propose a scenario-oriented testing approach that can automatically generate test cases for service compositions. Our approach is particularly focused on the service compositions specified by Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (WS-BPEL), a widely recognized executable service composition language. In the approach, a WS-BPEL service composition is first abstracted into a graph model; test scenarios are then derived from the model; finally, test cases are generated according to different scenarios. We also developed a prototype tool implementing the proposed approach, and an empirical study was conducted to demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our approach. The experimental results show that the automatic scenario-oriented testing approach is effective in detecting many types of faults seeded in the service compositions.

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“…Comprehensive surveys on SOA testing can be found in the literature showing that this topic has been intensively studied []. Among the adopted techniques, MBT and test case generation have been growing in last years [].…”

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Event tree algorithms to generate test sequences for composite Web services

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2017

Software Testing Verif & Rel

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Summary In service‐oriented architecture testing, the behaviour of a composite service and its partner services can be represented as an event graph (model). As test cases are derived from such a model, the Chinese postman problem (CPP) algorithm is applied to cover all edges. Although CPP provides an optimal solution, there is a lack of alternative algorithms to obtain not only a faster execution but also a satisfactory solution. This paper introduces the event tree algorithm (ETA) to generate test cases from event sequence models for Web service compositions. Two strategies are also proposed to improve ETA: First, a greedy strategy to build the tree is defined based on the cost of expanding given edges. Second, redundant elements are eliminated (pruned) in the tree. Four versions of ETA are compared with CPP with respect to test suite size, generation time, number of test sequences, and test sequence length.

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A comparative evaluation of state-of-the-art web service composition testing approaches

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

Model based testing of service oriented applications

Model based testing of service oriented applications

Automated Testing of WS-BPEL Service Compositions: A Scenario-Oriented Approach

Event tree algorithms to generate test sequences for composite Web services

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