An Empirical Study on Testing of SOA based Services

Abstract

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.

HiRSA: computing hit ratio for SOA-based applications through Tcases

“…5 Karimi and Nasser (2009) They have developed a three-step process for integrating services organisations. 6 Motlagh (2013) They have generated the control flow graph CFG of the BPEL in order to generate the test cases of SOA application 7 Yotyawilai and Taratip (2014) They have proposed test case generation technique from business process model and notation (BPMN) for SOA applications 8 Kumar and Singh (2015) They have reviewed some testing approach and identified the limitations and improved the testability of SOA-based services. 9 Kumar (2015) They have generated the test suite execution results and computed the coverage as xml schema elements present in the WSDL.…”

“…We have also computed the hit ratio metric for the SOA-based applications. Kumar and Singh (2015) found some various kinds of methodologies to solve the problems encountered during SOA testing. The author viewed the challenges faced in SOA testing from various perspectives.…”

“…In Table 3, we compare our proposed approach with some other existing work regarding the techniques used and tools developed. Some papers exist with no information of their tools used such as Mayer and Lubke (2006), white paper by Oracle (2008), Lubke et al (2009), Karimi and Nasser (2009), Kumar and Singh (2015), Motlagh (2013), Yotyawilai and Taratip (2014) and Nonchot and Taratip (2016). Table 5 shows the brief description of related work comparing our proposed work.…”

Assessing the Behaviour of Web Services using Finite States

“…The dynamic behaviour of Web services regarding the development of new services and constantly changing existing ones require a continuous evaluation process, leading to capture web service information with respect to their quality and performance evaluation [18], [19].…”

APESS - A Service-Oriented Data Mining Platform: Application for Medical Sciences

“…To full-fill clients need one service invoke another service/services. It is possible that there is some evolution among these external services [4].Th rough an approach based on services, especially service-oriented architecture (SOA ), integrated services can be defined to support the distributed data mining tasks in grids and the Web. Su ch services can address most aspects taken into account in data min ing and knowledge d iscovery in databases (KDD).…”