Web Services Testing, the Methodology, and the Implementation of the Automation-Testing Tool

Li, Ying; Li, Minglu; Yu, Jiadi

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24679-4_156

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“…There is some research in the field of testing services, which is mainly focusing on testing Web services.AWSST (Automatic Web Services Testing Tool) [24] is a framework, which has the possibility to make load/stress testing and authorization testing. Coyote [22] tests services in a way that test scenarios are generated from the WSDL description of the Web service.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing of Service-Oriented Architectures – A Practical Approach

Dustdar

Haslinger²

2004

Object-Oriented and Internet-Based Technologies

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Abstract. Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have recently emerged as a new promising paradigm for supporting distributed computing. Web services, as well as integration-packages relying on message oriented middleware are special substitutes for this kind of architecture. However, even if a lot of work has been focused on how to build such systems less work has been invested in how testing and monitoring such systems could be done. It is obvious that cyclic testing in the development phase of such architecture can help to identify vulnerabilities early in the design phase which leads to a stable deployment of the system. Testing in distributed systems is very challenging and automated test tools can help to reduce the development costs enormously. In the next years vast investment will be made in integrating systems, as a lot of companies have the need to integrate their systems to establish more flexible workflows. In this paper we will propose an approach as to how automatic testing for SOAs can be done. We will introduce a Meta language in XML, which allows defining test cases for services. A service can be a Web service, as well as an adaptor for a messaging-system, such as Tibco. We define a generic Meta language, but predict that maybe some cases are not covered, as our research for automatic testing of SOAs is still in progress. This paper focuses on a real life prototype implementation called SITT (Service Integration Test Tool). SITT is designed in a way that it can also be used as a monitoring system for SOAs. It has the possibility to test and monitor if certain workflows between multiple service endpoints really behave as described with the XML Meta language. We will also explain a feature called online and batch testing. Online testing means that tests are going on in real time; in contrast batch testing has the possibility to test service endpoints not connected to SITT, which will be often the case when integrating systems with external departments or companies. This paper shows how SITT is designed and we will present its features by introducing a real-world application scenario from the domain of Telecommunications providers, namely "Mobile Number Portability". This paper focuses on SITT as a test tool, how SITT can be used as a monitoring system is not part of this paper.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Testing of Service-Oriented Architectures – A Practical Approach

Dustdar

Haslinger²

2004

Object-Oriented and Internet-Based Technologies

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“…Tests are created by replacing each value with each boundary value, in turn, for appropriate type. In the paper [9,10,12], the authors propose a method of extending WSDL to describe dependency information which is useful for Web service testing. They suggest several extensions such as input-output dependency, invocation sequences, hierarchical functional description, and concurrent sequence specification.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model-Based Testing of Web Service with EFSM

Sun

Liao

Zhang

2014

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Web services are becoming more and more widespread as an emerging technology; it is hard to test Web services because they are distributed applications with numerous aspects of runtime behavior that are different from typical applications. This paper presents a new approach to testing Web services based on Extended Finite State Machine (EFSM). Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file alone does not provide dynamic behavior information. This problem can be overcome by appending the formal model of EFSM to standard WSDL, we can generate a set of test cases which has a better test coverage than other methods. Moreover, a procedure for deriving an EFSM model from WSDL specification is provided to help a service provider augment, the EFSM model describing dynamic behaviors of the Web service. To show the efficacy of our approach, we applied our approach to Parlay-X Web services. In this way, we can test Web services with greater confidence in potential fault detection.

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“…Compared with the traditional software testing, Web service testing has many new features and faces complex problems, including the running environment sensitive, complex network environment and the diversity of remote call methods. In [4,5], they reviewed the requirements of the current Web services test, the problems and the current situation of the research, and classified the related research from their respective perspectives. In [6], they established a credible attribute model of the Web services: TIM-WS, described the relationship between the credible attribute and its measure factor, combined the self-learning of neural network with the global optimization of genetic algorithm, designed a credible Web services measurement model EPTMM and its basic algorithm ANNGA.…”

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Credibility Verification of RESTful Web Services Based on Behavior Declaration

Yu¹,

Liu²

2017

dtcse

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Abstract. Representational State Transfer (REST), a kind of current mainstream framework, fit the needs of the people very much. But the research on the credibility of REST is not enough. In this paper, we will define the behavior declaration of RESTful Web services by the study of the characteristics of RESTful Web services and the definition of the credibility. We take a Web Services platform as an example; use the credibility behavior declaration to guide its credible verification.

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Web Services Testing, the Methodology, and the Implementation of the Automation-Testing Tool

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Testing of Service-Oriented Architectures – A Practical Approach

Testing of Service-Oriented Architectures – A Practical Approach

Model-Based Testing of Web Service with EFSM

Credibility Verification of RESTful Web Services Based on Behavior Declaration

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