| Practical Experiences of Testing Web Services (2008) | |||||||||||||||
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| Abstract. The utilisation of web services in building e-commerce applications and business-to-business solutions is becoming increasingly widespread. The nature of these applications dictates a strong need for robust and fault-tolerant infrastructures. To this end, the establishment of sound approaches to testing web services is essential. Existing literature on the subject typically focuses on theoretical classifications of possible tests, with limited consideration being given to practical issues. In this paper we describe the approach taken to testing web services within the (iterative) development of a large-scale service-based infrastructure. The system in question is being developed to support a variety of distributed applications pertaining to healthcare delivery and research. We also report upon our experiences, which have given rise to a collection of generic principles for the testing of systems built on web services. 1 | |||||||||||||||
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