Using Common Criteria to Assess Quality of Web Services

Nowadays, Web services are one of the most fashionable technology. Their simplicity of use and interoperability make them used in several fields such as web sites,widgets, classical applications and so on. There exists many technologies linked to this paradigm: SOAP (a communication protocol), WSDL (a description language) and UDDI (a yellow pages system) are among the most known. Some works proposed enhanced UDDI servers which only publish fully reliable Web service. This reliability is generally evaluated using tests. In those works, only Web services for which every tests are positive are published. In this paper, we introduce why we consider that this kind of approach is too binary. We also present examples of Web services that could be used by customers even if some tests fails. Then, we introduce a new approach for Web services publication. This approach relies on test categorization based on the common criteria norm. Then, we present how this marking system is implemented in iTaC-QoS, our validation framework based on UDDI.