Distributed Testing System for Web Service Based on Crowdsourcing

Xiaolong Liu,Riqing Chen,Shyan-Ming Yuan,Yun-Ju Hsieh

doi:10.1155/2018/2170585

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Abstract

To appropriately realize the performance of a web service, it is essential to give it a comprehensive testing. Although an elastic test could be guaranteed in traditional cloud testing systems, the geographical test that supports real user behavior simulation remains a problem. In this paper, we propose a testing system based on a crowdsourcing model to carry out the distributed test on a target web server automatically. The proposed crowdsourcing-based testing system (CTS) provides a reliable testing model to simulate real user web browsing behaviors with the help of web browsers scattered all around the world. In order to make the entire test process the same as the real situation, two test modes are proposed to simulate real user activity. By evaluating every single resource of web service automatically, a tester can not only find out internal problems but also understand the performance of the web service. In addition, the complete geographical test is available with the performance measurements coming from different regions in the world. Several experiments are performed to validate the functionality and usability of CTS. It demonstrates that CTS is a complete and reliable web service testing system, which provides unique functions and satisfies different requirements.

Highlights

Technological developments for broadband networks, distributed systems, and applications have led to tremendous changes in service-oriented society
This paper proposed a novel distributed crowdsourcingbased testing system crowdsourcing-based testing system (CTS) to ensure automatic testing for the target web service
CTS constructs a reliable testing platform by crowdsourcing, where testers are capable of deploying the web service test on worldwide web browsers

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Technological developments for broadband networks, distributed systems, and applications have led to tremendous changes in service-oriented society. With the advancement of web technology, service-oriented applications have become an indispensable part of our daily life. RESTful service, which uses HTTP as its underlying protocol, is considered to be the most common and important form of web application nowadays [1]. As for the system that provided web service, it is unavoidable to handle thousands of user requests from all over the world. If the design of the web server is not perfect, it will cause low performance and affect user experience. The testing procedure should verify whether the performance of the system is sufficiently good to satisfy users in terms of capability and availability

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