Towards Model-driven Hypermedia Testing for RESTful Systems

Henry Vu, Tobias Fertig, Peter Braun

2017

Abstract

Testing RESTful systems is a missing topic within literature. Especially hypermedia testing is not mentioned at all. We discuss the challenges of hypermedia testing that were discovered within our research. We will differ between client-side and server-side challenges since REpresentational State Transfer (REST) describes a client-server system. Therefore, both sides have to be considered. Hypermedia tests for the server have to ensure that there is no response without hypermedia links. However, the client also has to be hypermedia compliant. Thus, we propose to simulate a server update to check whether the client breaks. Since we use Model-driven Software Development (MDSD) to generate RESTful systems we also propose a model-driven approach for hypermedia testing. This allows us to generate tests for a server based on its underlying model. Moreover, we can build a crawler to verify our generated servers and to test all hypermedia links for different user roles. Any modification to the model can result in a server update, which can be used to test hypermedia clients.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vu H., Fertig T. and Braun P. (2017). Towards Model-driven Hypermedia Testing for RESTful Systems . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-246-2, pages 340-343. DOI: 10.5220/0006353403400343

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist17,
author={Henry Vu and Tobias Fertig and Peter Braun},
title={Towards Model-driven Hypermedia Testing for RESTful Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2017},
pages={340-343},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006353403400343},
isbn={978-989-758-246-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Towards Model-driven Hypermedia Testing for RESTful Systems
SN - 978-989-758-246-2
AU - Vu H.
AU - Fertig T.
AU - Braun P.
PY - 2017
SP - 340
EP - 343
DO - 10.5220/0006353403400343