A generic framework for testing the web services transactions

Abstract

This chapter focuses on web services transactions which support creating robust web services applications by guaranteeing that their execution is correct and the data sources are consistent. More specifically, it investigates into the testing of such transactions which has not received proper attention from the current research. It presents a generic framework for testing different models and standards of web services transactions. The framework is implemented as a prototype system using the case study of Jboss Transactions and is applied to test the predominant web services models and standards such as Web Services Business Activity (WS-BA). The results show that the framework automatically generates test cases and detects possible faults or failures during the processing of web services transactions running under different model and standards.