Multi-agent test environment for BPEL-based web service composition

Author

Dong, Wenli

Author_Institution

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

855

Lastpage

860

Abstract

The distributed structure of agents makes the test for large and complex Web service composition possible. This paper discusses how to develop the multi-agent test environment for BPEL-based Web Service composition. The BPEL-based Web Service composition is modeled by HPN that can be easily referenced by test case generation and test evaluation. By representing agent in HPN, the agent can be dynamically bound at runtime. In order to implement the multi-agent test environment for BPEL-based Web Service composition, the ontology is analyzed and defined based on XML because of its flexibility, extensibility etc. This ontology is the basis of the agent communication and provides the terms for test case generation and test evaluation etc. The test case generation and test evaluation under this test environment are analyzed. The test process is provided to illustrate the inter-action between the agents under this multi-agent test environment to accomplish test task.

Keywords

Web services; XML; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); program testing; BPEL-based Web service composition; XML; multi-agent test environment; ontology; test case generation; test evaluation; Distributed computing; Life testing; Ontologies; Runtime; Service oriented architecture; Software agents; Software testing; Software tools; Web services; XML; Business Process Execution Language for Web Services; High-level Petri Net; Multi-agent test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems, 2008 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1673-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1674-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIS.2008.4670937

Filename

4670937