Automated Testing of Web Services and Service-Oriented Computing

随着包括亚马逊、苹果、谷歌、IBM、微软和雅虎在内的主要技术参与者最近对面向服务的计算的投资，面向服务的计算的驱动力显而易见。虽然这些新系统仍然与传统的信息技术系统和现代的基于Web的应用程序密切相关，但它们提出了一些独特的挑战，需要创新的软件工程方法。 面向服务的计算系统中的独特测试挑战包括Web服务端点的验证和跨多个异构节点的系统状态的验证。 测试传统软件系统的非功能性质量属性是一项具有挑战性的工作，对于面向服务的计算也是如此。 虽然服务之间的安全基础设施已经建立，但需要开发策略、工具和测试技术来减少Web服务中的缺陷数量，以产生安全的面向服务的计算系统。

With recent investments in service-oriented computing by major technological players including Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo, the drive towards service-oriented computing is evident. While these novel systems remain closely tied to traditional information technology systems and modern web-based applications, they pose a number of unique challenges for which innovative software engineering methodologies are required. Unique testing challenges within service-oriented computing systems include the verification of the web-service endpoints and the verification of the state of the system across multiple heterogeneous nodes. Testing the non-functional quality attributes of traditional software systems is a challenging endeavour, and the same holds true for service-oriented computing. Although infrastructure for security between services is established, development strategies, tools and testing techniques that decrease the number of defects within web-services are required to produce secure service-oriented computing systems.