Test Reduction for Easing Web Service Integration

DIEGO ANABALÓN; MARTÍN GARRIGA; ANDRES FLORES; ALEJANDRA CECHICH; ALEJANDRO ZUNINO

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Simposio; ASSE'15, 16th Simposio Argentino de Ingeniería de Software; 2015

Since the irruption of Web Services, in their SOAP and REST flavors, the market has turned from intra-business applications to inter-organizational applications. Nowadays, more organizations have a broad access to the Web and span their frontiers using service-centered applications. In this paper, we review the testing challenges and strategies in Web Services ? as the technological weapon-of-choice to implement Business Services. Then we deepen into a possible strategy to ad-dress service testing: Test Reduction. Fresh strategies are necessary sinceWeb Services testing is substantially different from legacy systems testing.