Research Progress in Testing Techniques Based on Web Service Life Cycle
Yingchi Mao · 2009
Web service is a new distributed computing paradigm,which is one of the implementations of Service-oriented Architecture.However,the new features of Web service,such as loose-couple,dynamics and compositionality,bring great challenges to test Web service.How to find efficient and effective testing techniques of Web service and to develop practical test tools is a promising research theme to be solved.Currently,testing methods have been applied through the whole life cycle of Web service which consists of development,pre-publication,runtime and evolution.Therefore,from the view of Web service life cycle,the paper first analyzed several important parameters effecting testing techniques of Web service.Then the state-of-the-art testing methods and techniques were surveyed and compared in terms of these parameters.Finally,the directions of future research were explored.