The Web Services Composition Testing Based on Extended Finite State Machine and UML Model

Abstract

Web services are designed as software building blocks for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It provides an approach to software development that system and application can be constructed by assembling reusable software building blocks, called services. The industries have adopted web services composition to generate new business applications or mission critical services. One of the most popular integration languages for web services composition is Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL). Although the individual service is usually functional correctly, however, several unexpected faults may occur during execution of composite web service. It is difficult to detect the original failure service because the faults may propagate, accumulate and spread. In this paper, we present a technique of Model-Based Testing (MBT) to enhance testing of interactions among the web services. The technique combines Extended Finite State Machine (EFSM) and UML sequence diagram to generate a test model, called EFSM-SeTM. We also defined various coverage criteria to generate valid test paths from EFSM-SeTM model for a better test coverage of all possible scenarios.