Service-oriented software testing platform

Abstract

Software testing is an important quality guarantee for software. It is an indispensable stage in software life cycle. After the analysis into the idea of the service-oriented systems, this paper tries to integrate service-oriented thinking with software testing to propose a service-oriented software platform to solve the limitations that exist in actual software testing tools, such as costliness, heterogeneity, lack of expansibility, single function, and so on. Service-oriented software testing platform (SOSTP) adopting a distributed structure separates testing client and server. Logical function of testing services is completed on the server end. It can integrate existing software testing tools, and provide corresponding testing services to the clients. The biggest characteristic of SOSTP is the dynamic deployment of testing service, which enables users to customize testing services dynamically. This platform has high extensity and transparency. © 2007 by International Federation for Information Processing.