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Title

Tag-based techniques for black-box test case prioritization for service testing

Author(s)

Mei, Lijun;  Chan, W. K.;  Tse, T. H.;  Merkel, Robert G.

Abstract

A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors may still be compatible to its originally collaborative agreement. Although peer services may wish to conduct regression testing to verify the original collaboration, the source code of the former service can be inaccessible to them. Traditional code-based regression testing strategies are inapplicable. The rich interface specifications of a web service, however, provide peer services with a means to formulate black-box testing strategies. In this paper, we formulate new test case prioritization strategies using tags embedded in XML messages to reorder regression test cases, and reveal how the test cases use the interface specifications of services. We evaluate experimentally their effectiveness on revealing regression faults in modified WS-BPEL programs. The results show that the new techniques can have a high probability of outperforming random ordering.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2009), Jeju, Korea, 24-25 August 2009, pp. 21-30

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

080309 Software Engineering

Keyword(s)

Black box testing;  Encapsulation testing;  Regression testing;  Service testing;  Software testing;  Web Services Description Language;  WS-BPEL;  WSDL

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

1550-6002 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9781424459124, 1424459125

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/QSIC.2009.12

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 IEEE.

Research Projects

A comprehensive testing methodology for embedded software, Australian Research Council grant number DP0984760

Peer reviewed