Availability Testing for Web Services

Abstract

Convergence platforms are infrastructures that integrate Internet, Multimedia (IT) and Intelligent Networks (Telecommunications) to provide services via technology independent application programming interfaces (APIs). New challenges have emerged regarding the robustness of those platforms against potential security threats and other types of failures that could affect service availability. Current approaches in testing such service centric systems target stateless unit-level testing and tend to focus on syntactical data analysis, while neglecting the semantical aspects. We describe a new pattern-driven test modeling approach that allows stateful test design on service level and reduces the test development cycle through automated model transformation and code generation.