Combinatorial Testing of Web Services: A Systematic Mapping

Abstract

Complete coverage of all possible test instances in the testing of integrated systems could achieve by using combinatorial testing (CT) strategies. Combinatorial testing has widely been studied in Web service testing research. Few studies related to testing basic web services while others focus on the composite service behavior of web services to generate minimum test cases or test data. This paper is a part of another larger paper that systematically map the available research work on combinatorial testing of web services. The paper presents a Classification scheme to structure the area and to report results based on the answers of three selected research questions. A classification scheme comprises combinatorial techniques algorithms and tools for testing and standard based SUT. This study exposes that even web service testing is getting noteworthy attention still very few approaches of CT applied to test web services.