A framework for testing Web services and its supporting tool

With the increase of the popularity of Web services, more and more Web applications are developed with this new kind of components. This new way of software development brings about new issues for software testing, which has been widely recognized as a realistic means for ensuring the quality of software systems. In this paper, we focus on facilitating the testing of Web services. In particular, we propose a framework for testing Web services, which can help a tester of Web services in two ways: firstly, it can help the tester to acquire effective test data; and secondly, it can help the tester to execute the test data for the testing. We also discuss some issues for the implementation of its supporting tool. Furthermore, we report an experimental study of our framework. The results can validate the effectiveness of our approach.