Toward Effectively Locating Integration-Level Faults in BPEL Programs

Author

Sun, Chang-ai ; Zhai, Yimeng ; Shang, Yan ; Zhang, Zhenyu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. Beijing, Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

20

Abstract

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a widely recognized executable service composition language. Since BPEL integrates services of desired functionality to compose business processes, it is significantly different from typical programming languages. How to effectively locate the integration-level faults in BPEL programs is an open issue. In this paper, we propose the BPEL fault localization guidelines based on the characteristics of BPEL programs, and adapt Tarantula, a traditional fault localization technique, to locate the integration-level faults in BPEL programs. We also conducted an empirical study to demonstrate the feasibility of our methodology.

Keywords

Web services; service-oriented architecture; specification languages; BPEL programs; SOA; business process execution language; executable service composition language; fault localization technique; locating integration level faults; programming languages; service oriented architecture; Business; Debugging; Guidelines; Service oriented architecture; Testing; BPEL; Fault Localization; Service Compositions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Software (QSIC), 2012 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an, Shaanxi

ISSN

1550-6002

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2857-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QSIC.2012.48

Filename

6319221