Exploring Perturbation Based Testing for Web Services

Author

de Almeida, L.F. ; Vergilio, Silvia R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Parana, Curitiba

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

717

Lastpage

726

Abstract

Web service is a modern technology commonly used to integrate software projects among different platforms, operating systems or even programming languages. This distributed and heterogeneous nature complicates the testing activity which is, in general, expensive and effort demanding. Adequate and cost effective testing methods are needed for Web services. An extended approach based on XML messages perturbation has been introduced to test pairs of Web services. Perturbation operators produce modified XML messages, which are used as test cases. This paper explores the use of such promising approach by introducing new perturbation operators for SOAP messages and describing a supporting tool, named SMAT-WS. An experimental study was accomplished with this tool. The obtained results allow an evaluation of the perturbation operators regarding cost and efficacy

Keywords

Web services; XML; access protocols; perturbation techniques; program testing; SOAP messages; Web services; XML messages perturbation; perturbation based testing; Application software; Computer science; Costs; Perturbation methods; Simple object access protocol; Software testing; System testing; Web and internet services; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Services, 2006. ICWS '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2669-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWS.2006.60

Filename

4032087