Abstract
The Web services technology has received significant momentum in recent years, because it allows people to easily utilize and integrate existing software applications to rapidly create new business services. However, how to ensure the trustworthiness of a Web services-oriented system remains a big challenge. One critical issue is how to test a Web service in an effective and efficient manner. In this paper, we report our design and development of a novel mobile agent-based method oriented to Web services testing. We seamlessly integrate an existing testing tool (HP LoadRunner) with a mobile agent technology (IBM Aglet) to build a practical environment for testing Web services. We also report an automatic test case generation algorithm, which analyzes published Web service interfaces and creates boundary value-based, fault injection-equipped test cases.
Highlights
A Web service refers to a programmable Web application with a standard interface and is universally accessible using standard network protocols
To build a practical Web services testing platform, we explore a way to leverage the power of the existing testing tools and the mobile agent technology
Our experiments prove that our approach has successfully integrated LoadRunner and Aglet technology to provide an effective and efficient testing platform oriented to Web services testing
Summary
A Web service refers to a programmable Web application with a standard interface and is universally accessible using standard network protocols. Its interoperability provides users a practical way to quickly create a new service by combining existing services. It is one central reason why this emerging technology has caught significant momentum from both academia and industry in the recent years. The wide adoption of the Web services technology has encountered a bottleneck, because it remains a big challenge as how to ensure the trustworthiness of a Web services-. This paper is a significant extension to its conference version: Jia Zhang and Di Xu, “A Mobile Agent-Supported Web Services Testing Platform”, Proceedings of The 3rd International Symposium on Trustworthiness, Reliability and services in Ubiquitous, and Sensor Networks (TRUST 2008), Shanghai, China, Dec. 17–20, 2008, pp.
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