AN APPROACH TO METAMORPHIC TESTING FOR WS-BPEL COMPOSITIONS

Carmen Castro-Cabrera, Inmaculada Medina-Bulo

2011

Abstract

Nowadays, Web Service (WS) compositions play an important role in business processes. Languages for composing web services, such as the OASISWS-BPEL 2.0 standard, open a new field for large-scale programming. However, they also present a challenge for traditional quality assurance because of the inclusion of specific instructions for concurrency, fault compensation, and dynamic service discovery and invocation. Metamorphic Testing (MT) has proved useful to test and improve the quality of traditional imperative programs. This paper discusses how to use MT to test WS compositions in WS-BPEL. Although MT has not been previously applied to this area, promising results have been obtained in a number of different applications. A component diagram for a testing framework implementing this approach is included.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Castro-Cabrera C. and Medina-Bulo I. (2011). AN APPROACH TO METAMORPHIC TESTING FOR WS-BPEL COMPOSITIONS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-70-6, pages 137-142. DOI: 10.5220/0003611401370142

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-b11,
author={Carmen Castro-Cabrera and Inmaculada Medina-Bulo},
title={AN APPROACH TO METAMORPHIC TESTING FOR WS-BPEL COMPOSITIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={137-142},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003611401370142},
isbn={978-989-8425-70-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2011)
TI - AN APPROACH TO METAMORPHIC TESTING FOR WS-BPEL COMPOSITIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-70-6
AU - Castro-Cabrera C.
AU - Medina-Bulo I.
PY - 2011
SP - 137
EP - 142
DO - 10.5220/0003611401370142