NDLI: Towards a metamorphic testing methodology for service-oriented software applications

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chan, W.K. Cheung, S.C. Leung, K.R.P.H.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Clear Water Bay, China (Chan, W.K.; Cheung, S.C.)
Abstract	Testing applications in service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments needs to deal with issues like the unknown communication partners until the service discovery, the imprecise black-box information of software components, and the potential existence of non-identical implementations of the same service. In this paper, we exploit the benefits of the SOA environments and metamorphic testing (MT) to alleviate the issues. We propose an MT-oriented testing methodology in this paper. It formulates metamorphic services to encapsulate services as well as the implementations of metamorphic relations. Test cases for the unit test phase is proposed to generate follow-up test cases for the integration test phase. The metamorphic services invoke relevant services to execute test cases and use their metamorphic relations to detect failures. It has potentials to shift the testing effort from the construction of the integration test sets to the development of metamorphic relations.
Starting Page	470
Ending Page	476
File Size	235542
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769524729
ISSN	15506002
DOI	10.1109/QSIC.2005.67
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-09-19
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing Application software Service oriented architecture Automatic testing Web services Councils Computer science Software performance Software quality metamorphic testing infrastructure. service-oriented architecture unit testing integration testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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