Metasearch Services Composition in WS-BPEL - An Application of Metamorphic Testing

Carmen Castro, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo, Azahara Camacho

2012

Abstract

Nowadays, the impact of Web Services is quickly increasing because of transactions through Internet. The OASIS WS-BPEL 2.0 standard language allows to develop business processes by means of pre-existing Web Services and to offer themselves as a new Web Service. This makes it necessary to pay special attention to testing this type of software and presents a challenge for traditional testing techniques, due to the inclusion of specific instructions for concurrency, fault and compensation handling, and dynamic service discovery and invocation. Metamorphic Testing has proved useful to test and improve the quality of traditional imperative programs. However, it has not been applied to languages for composingWeb Services such a WS-BPEL. This work presents an procedure for applying Metamorphic Testing to Web Services compositions, proposes an architecture and analyzes a case study with promising results.

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Castro C., Medina-Bulo I. and Camacho A. (2012). Metasearch Services Composition in WS-BPEL - An Application of Metamorphic Testing . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 427-432. DOI: 10.5220/0004026004270432


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Carmen Castro and Inmaculada Medina-Bulo and Azahara Camacho},
title={Metasearch Services Composition in WS-BPEL - An Application of Metamorphic Testing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={427-432},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004026004270432},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Metasearch Services Composition in WS-BPEL - An Application of Metamorphic Testing
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Castro C.
AU - Medina-Bulo I.
AU - Camacho A.
PY - 2012
SP - 427
EP - 432
DO - 10.5220/0004026004270432