Service-oriented Architecture Testing Research Articles

An Empirical Study on Testing of SOA based Services

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) removed the gap between software and business. Today, there is a business transformation among enterprises and they adopt a service based information technology (IT) model. So, testing is necessary for SOA based applications. This paper investigates different type of approaches and techniques that address the testing problems of SOA based services. Here we also investigate the differences between SOA and web services and traditional testing and SOA testing. Various testing levels are also discussed in detail. This paper also expresses various testing perspectives, challenges of SOA testing and review the many testing approaches and identify the problems that improve the testability of SOA based services.

A Survey of Service Oriented Architecture Systems Testing

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is one of the latest software architectures. This architecture is created in direction of the business requirements and removed the gap between softwares and businesses. The software testing is the rising cost of activities in development software. SOA has different specifications and features proportion of the other software architectures. First this paper reviews SOA testing challenges and existing solution(s) for those challenges. Then that reports a survey of recent research to SOA systems testing, that covers both functional and non-functional testing. Those are presented for different levels of functional testing, including unit, integration, and regression testing.

A Framework for the Testability of Service Oriented Architecture

The majority of current researches on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) are focusing on the dynamic services composition design and development techniques, leaving testing task with inefficient outcome and results. Many papers have presented novel testing approaches for supporting testability of SOA systems and Component Based Distributed systems; in which these systems are experiencing many testing challenges under real environments. Many new specifications and standards emerged aiming to define the implementation, trustworthiness, and the Quality of Services (QoS). Furthermore, these standards aid SOA testing in real-time environments. In this paper, we will review prior research works derived from the literature, which aid us to identifying the issues in the testability of SOA systems in real-time. Grounded in this principle, we will highlight the standards, protocols that may apply and aid SOA testing. We will propose an approach to which will make SOA testing on real-time, much relevant and applicable.

Business-process-driven gray-box SOA testing

Challenges are emerging in testing service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems. Current testing is not sufficient to deal with the new requirements arising from several SOA features such as composition, loose coupling, and code without a graphical user interface. The most critical architecture information of an SOA solution is actually how services are composed and interact with each other. This paper proposes a gray-box testing approach, that is, an approach that involves having access to internal workings, data structures, and algorithms when designing the test cases but tests at the user level as a black box, that is, by applying inputs and observing outputs. This approach leverages business processes and the underlying SOA layered architecture to better test SOA solutions. A commonly used language to model business processes is BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), which is the focus of the approach described in this paper. Among the layered artifacts, the business process view represents the global behavior of the SOA system and thus is a good candidate as supplemental architectural information to the functional requirement or specification in test-case design and generation. This approach has three key enablers: test-path exploration, trace analysis, and regression test selection. BPELTester is an innovative tool that implements this method. It has been piloted in several projects and the initial pilot results are presented in this paper.

Testing services and service-centric systems: challenges and opportunities

This paper provides users and system integrators with an overview of service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing's fundamental technical issues and solutions, focusing on Web services as a practical implementation of the SOA model. The paper discusses SOA testing across two dimensions: testing perspectives, wherein various stakeholders have different needs and raise different testing requirements; and testing level, wherein each SOA testing level poses unique challenges