Title :
A Framework for Testing RESTful Web Services
Author :
Reza, Hassan ; Van Gilst, David
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Aerosp. Sci., Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Abstract :
While web services greatly reduce the cost and complexity of integrating systems; they also introduce a number of additional challenges for testing because web services require standards, API, communication protocols and architecture that are not fully supported by traditional software testing methods and tools. In this paper, we discuss a software framework for providing a variety of test inputs for web service depended software, including predetermined test cases, replay of previous data, and generation of random test cases through data perturbation from a provided template.
Keywords :
Web services; program testing; software architecture; RESTful Web services; Web testing; data perturbation; predetermined test cases; previous data replay; random test case generation; service oriented architecture; software testing methods; software tools; Aerospace testing; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Software standards; Software testing; System testing; Web services; XML; Software Testing; WSDL (Web Service Description Language); Web Based Service Oriented Architecture; Web Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2010 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6270-4
DOI :
10.1109/ITNG.2010.175
