id: 02204929
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an: 02204929
au: Heckel, Reiko; Mariani, Leonardo
ti: Automatic conformance testing of web services.
so: Cerioli, Maura (ed.), Fundamental approaches to software engineering. 8th
    international conference, FASE 2005, held as part of the joint European
    conferences on theory and practice of software, ETAPS 2005, Edinburgh,
    UK, April 4‒8, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN
    3-540-25420-X/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3442, 34-48
    (2005).
py: 2005
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1007/b107062
ab: Summary: Web Services are the basic building blocks of next generation
    Internet applications, based on dynamic service discovery and
    composition. Dedicated discovery services will store both syntactic and
    behavioral descriptions of available services and guarantee their
    compatibility with the requirements expressed by clients. In practice,
    however, interactions may still fail because the Web Service’s
    implementation may be faulty. In fact, the client has no guarantee on
    the quality of the implementation associated to any service
    description. In this paper, we propose the idea of high-quality service
    discovery incorporating automatic testing for validating Web Services
    before allowing their registration. First, the discovery service
    automatically generates conformance test cases from the provided
    service description, then runs the test cases on the target Web
    Service, and only if the test is successfully passed, the service is
    registered. In this way, clients bind with Web Services providing a
    compatible signature, a suitable behavior, and a high-quality
    implementation.
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