Business-process-driven gray-box SOA testing

• DOI: 10.1147/sj.473.0457
• Publication Date: 2010-04-05T18:33:53Z
• Authors: Z. J. Li; H. F. Tan; H. H. Liu; J. Zhu; N. M. Mitsumori
• Keywords: Regression testing; Loose coupling; Integration testing; White-box testing

Challenges are emerging in testing service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems. Current is not sufficient to deal with the new requirements arising from several SOA features such as composition, loose coupling, and code without a graphical user interface. The most critical information of an solution actually how services composed interact each other. This paper proposes gray-box approach, that is, approach involves having access internal workings, data structures, algorithms when designing test cases but tests at level black box, by applying inputs observing outputs. leverages business processes underlying layered better solutions. A commonly used language model BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), which focus described this paper. Among artifacts, process view represents global behavior system thus good candidate supplemental architectural functional requirement or specification test-case design generation. has three key enablers: test-path exploration, trace analysis, regression selection. BPELTester innovative tool implements method. It been piloted projects initial pilot results presented