Extending WSDL to facilitate Web services testing

Author

Tsai, W.T. ; Paul, Ray ; Wang, Yamin ; Fan, Chun ; Wang, Dong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

172

Abstract

Web services might be the most popular and powerful software development technology in today´s software world. Yet it brings software developers and testers a lot of challenges also. This is mainly caused by the insufficient information provided by the WSDL file of a Web service. From the WSDL file, we can not get the information useful for testing, such as dependence information. To solve this problem, we proposed and practiced to extend the WSDL to support this kind of information description. In this paper, four kinds of extension are considered: input-output dependency, invocation sequence, hierarchical functional description and concurrent sequence specifications. Also their advantages are discussed.

Keywords

Internet; Web sites; formal specification; program testing; specification languages; WSDL; Web services testing; concurrent sequence specifications; dependence information; hierarchical functional description; input-output dependency; invocation sequence; software development; software testing; specification; Computer science; Java; Power engineering and energy; Programming; Runtime; Simple object access protocol; Software testing; Standards development; System testing; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. 7th IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1530-2059

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1769-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HASE.2002.1173119

Filename

1173119