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A simple approach for testing web service based applications

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Hacène Fouchal,

Nashat MansourAuthors Info & Claims

IICS'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems

Pages 134 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1007/11749776_12

Published: 20 June 2005 Publication History

Abstract

The cost of developing and deploying web applications is reduced by dynamically integrating other heterogeneous self-contained web services. However, the malfunctioning of such systems would cause severe losses. This paper presents a technique for building reliable web applications composed of web services. All relevant web services are linked to the component under test at the testing time; thus, the availability of suitable web services is guaranteed at invocation time. In our technique, a web application and its composed components are specified by a two-level abstract model. The web application is represented as Task Precedence Graph (TPG) and the behavior of the composed components is represented as a Timed Labeled Transition System (TLTS). Three sets of test sequences are generated from the WSDL files, the TLTS and the TPG representing the integrated components and the whole web application. Test cases are executed automatically using a test execution algorithm and a test framework is also presented. This framework wraps the test cases with SOAP interfaces and validates the testing results obtained from the web services.

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A simple approach for testing web service based applications
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
2. Software and its engineering
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    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis

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IICS'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems

June 2005

207 pages

ISBN:3540339736

Editors:
Alain Bui
Université de Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 45, avenue des Etats-Unis, Versailles Cedex, France
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Marc Bui
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique Avancée, Université Paris 8, Versailles Cedex, France
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Thomas Böhme
Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Université Paris 8, Ilmenau, Germany
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Herwig Unger
Computer Science Dept., University of Rostock, Université Paris 8, Rostock, Germany

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Published: 20 June 2005

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Anisetti MArdagna CDamiani ESaonara F(2013)A test-based security certification scheme for web servicesACM Transactions on the Web10.1145/2460383.24603847:2(1-41)Online publication date: 29-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2460383.2460384
Najafi MSartipi KArcher NNg JJacobsen HZou Y(2012)Web service competitionProceedings of the 2012 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research10.5555/2399776.2399791(161-175)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2399776.2399791
Li BQiu DLeung HWang D(2012)Automatic test case selection for regression testing of composite service based on extensible BPEL flow graphJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2012.01.03685:6(1300-1324)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2012.01.036
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