DocumentCode :
2165447
Title :
Reducing cost in regression testing of web service
Author :
Chaturvedi, Animesh
Author_Institution :
Indian Inst. of Inf. Technol., Design & Manuf., Jabalpur, India
fYear :
2012
fDate :
5-7 Sept. 2012
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
9
Abstract :
Regression testing and retesting of a modified Web Service can be very costly as it tends to generates large number of test cases. Regression testing cost can be reduced significantly by identifying and testing the modified portion of the Web Service only. This avoids the costly construction of new test cases and the unproductive rerunning of existing test cases when it can be guaranteed that the unmodified code of web service will produce the same results as it produced previously. In this paper, by designing Web service graph we propose an effective method of identifying the modified areas (in this paper area means code of web service to be tested) and use this information to reduce regression testing efforts. In this process, we define and use a set of metrics to categorize the testing of Web service. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach using a case study that consisted of two steps. In the first step, we compared two versions of WSDL´s to identify the inserted, modified and deleted areas of the Web services. Next, we use this information to generate the reduced test cases.
Keywords :
Web services; program testing; regression analysis; software cost estimation; software metrics; Web service deleted area identification; Web service graph design; Web service inserted area identification; Web service modified area identification; Web service unmodified code; regression retesting cost reduction; regression testing cost reduction; software metrics; test case generation; Color; Indexes; Measurement; Simple object access protocol; Testing; XML; Regression testing; WSDL; XML Diff; web service;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (CONSEG), 2012 CSI Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Indore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2174-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CONSEG.2012.6349498
Filename :
6349498
Link To Document :
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