An Approach for WSDL-Based Automated Robustness Testing of Web Services

Abstract

Web Services are considered a new paradigm for building software applications that has many advantages over the previous paradigms; however, Web Services are still not widely used because service requesters do not trust services that are built by others. Testing can be used to solve part of this problem because it can be used to assess some of the quality attributes of Web Services. This chapter proposes a framework that can be used to test the robustness quality attribute of a Web Service. This framework is based on analyzing the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) document of Web Services to identify what faults could affect the robustness attribute and then test cases were designed to detect those faults. A proof of concept tool has been implemented and experiments carried out that show the usefulness of this approach.