Adaptive Web Services Testing

Abstract

Web services (WS) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) present a set of unique testing challenges. As services are distributed, it is necessary to test them using a distributed architecture. Furthermore, as these services may keep on changing, testing needs to be adaptive. This paper proposes an adaptive testing framework which can continuously learn and improve the built-in test strategies. The framework allows different test cases to be selected based on the recent test results. The framework also has a windowing mechanism to evaluate and select test cases.