A Framework for Testing RESTful Web Services

Author

Reza, Hassan ; Van Gilst, David

Author_Institution

Sch. of Aerosp. Sci., Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

12-14 April 2010

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

221

Abstract

While web services greatly reduce the cost and complexity of integrating systems; they also introduce a number of additional challenges for testing because web services require standards, API, communication protocols and architecture that are not fully supported by traditional software testing methods and tools. In this paper, we discuss a software framework for providing a variety of test inputs for web service depended software, including predetermined test cases, replay of previous data, and generation of random test cases through data perturbation from a provided template.

Keywords

Web services; program testing; software architecture; RESTful Web services; Web testing; data perturbation; predetermined test cases; previous data replay; random test case generation; service oriented architecture; software testing methods; software tools; Aerospace testing; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Software standards; Software testing; System testing; Web services; XML; Software Testing; WSDL (Web Service Description Language); Web Based Service Oriented Architecture; Web Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2010 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6270-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2010.175

Filename

5501468