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A Robustness Test Method and Test Framework for the Services Composition in the Service Oriented Architecture  

Kuk, Seung-Hak (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학)
Kim, Hyeon-Soo (충남대학교 컴퓨터공학)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.36, no.10, 2009 , pp. 800-815 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, Web services based service-oriented architecture is widely used to integrate effectively various applications distributed on the networks. In the service-oriented architecture BPEL as a standard modeling language for the business processes provides the way to integrate various services provided by applications. Over the past few years, some types of studies have been made on testing compatibility of services and on discriminating and tracing of the business processes in the services composition. Now a lot of studies about the services composition with BPEL are going on. However there were few efforts to solve the problems caused by the services composition. Especially, there is no effort to evaluate whether a composite service is reliable and whether it is robust against to exceptional situations. In this paper, we suggest a test framework and a testing method for robustness of the composite service written in WS-BPEL. For this, firstly we extract some information from the BPEL process and the participant services. Next, with the extracted information we construct the virtual testing environment that generates various faults and exceptional cases which may be raised within the real services. Finally the testing work for robustness of a composite service is performed on the test framework.
Keywords
Service Oriented Architecture; BPEL; Service Composition; Robustness Test; Test Automation;
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