Title :
Extending WSDL to facilitate Web services testing
Author :
Tsai, W.T. ; Paul, Ray ; Wang, Yamin ; Fan, Chun ; Wang, Dong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
Web services might be the most popular and powerful software development technology in today´s software world. Yet it brings software developers and testers a lot of challenges also. This is mainly caused by the insufficient information provided by the WSDL file of a Web service. From the WSDL file, we can not get the information useful for testing, such as dependence information. To solve this problem, we proposed and practiced to extend the WSDL to support this kind of information description. In this paper, four kinds of extension are considered: input-output dependency, invocation sequence, hierarchical functional description and concurrent sequence specifications. Also their advantages are discussed.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; formal specification; program testing; specification languages; WSDL; Web services testing; concurrent sequence specifications; dependence information; hierarchical functional description; input-output dependency; invocation sequence; software development; software testing; specification; Computer science; Java; Power engineering and energy; Programming; Runtime; Simple object access protocol; Software testing; Standards development; System testing; Web services;
Conference_Titel :
High Assurance Systems Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. 7th IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1769-2
DOI :
10.1109/HASE.2002.1173119
