Goal-based testing of semantic web services

Jokhio, M. Shaban; Sun, Jing; Dobbie, Gillian; Hu, Tianming

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2016.11.011

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“…However, the testing of web services is more challenging than that of traditional software due to the unique characteristics of SOA (Canfora and Penta, 2008). In recent years, researchers have proposed various testing techniques to address these challenges (Sharma et al, 2012), and a number of techniques have been proposed for test case generation, including using XML perturbation (Xu et al, 2005), fault injection (Farj et al, 2012), WSDL specifications-based (Bartolini et al, 2009), goal-based (Jokhio, 2009), contract-based (Heckel and Lohmann, 2005), model-driven (Lenz et al, 2007), and ontology-based (Dai et al, 2007). Most testing techniques assume the existence of an oracle, but the testability of web services is often low due to some unique features of the SOA architecture -such as restricted control over the web services and frequent lack of access to their implementation -resulting in the oracle problem.…”

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MT4WS: an automated metamorphic testing system for web services

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The use of web services has been growing significantly, with increasingly large numbers of applications being implemented through the web. A difficulty associated with this development is the quality assurance of these services, specifically the challenges encountered when testing the applications-amongst other things, testers may not have access to the source code, and the correctness of the output may not be easily ascertained (known as the oracle problem). Metamorphic testing (MT) has been introduced as a technique to alleviate the oracle problem. MT makes use of properties of the software under test, known as metamorphic relations, and checks whether or not these relations are violated. Since MT does not require source code to generate the metamorphic relations, it is suitable for testing web services-based applications. We have designed an XML-based language representation to facilitate the formalisation of metamorphic relations, the generation of (follow-up) test cases, and the verification of the test results. Based on this, we have also developed a tool to support the automation of MT for web service applications. This tool has been used in an experiment to test web services, the evaluation of which is reported in this paper.

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MT4WS: an automated metamorphic testing system for web services

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Wen

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“…The proposed method can be extended to perform TCP, test case augmentation and identification, and test repairing, which are vital for the successful running of a system [50,51]. The second research direction emerges from studies [52,53], where researchers propose rule-based regression testing approaches and tools. Future research can present a coherent framework by integrating TCG, mutation testing, and feedback on testing results.…”

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Ontology-Based Regression Testing: A Systematic Literature Review

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Web systems evolve by adding new functionalities or modifying them to meet users’ requirements. Web systems require retesting to ensure that existing functionalities are according to users’ expectations. Retesting a web system is challenging due to high cost and time consumption. Existing ‘systematic literature review’ (SLR) studies do not comprehensively present the ontology-based regression testing approaches. Therefore, this study focuses on ontology-based regression testing approaches because ontologies have been a growing research solution in regression testing. Following this, a systematic search of studies was performed using the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” (PRISMA) guidelines. A total of 24 peer-reviewed studies covering ontologies (semantic and inference rules) and regression testing, published between 2007 and 2019, were selected. The results showed that mainly ontology-based regression testing approaches were published in 2011–2012 and 2019 because ontology got momentum in research in other fields of study during these years. Furthermore, seven challenges to ontology-driven regression testing approaches are reported in the selected studies. Cost and validation are the main challenges examined in the research studies. The scalability of regression testing approaches has been identified as a common problem for ontology-based and other benchmark regression testing approaches. This SLR presents that the safety of critical systems is a possible future research direction to prevent human life risks.

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