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Evaluating the effectiveness of the abstract transaction model in testing Web services transactions

  1. Rubén Casado1,*,
  2. Javier Tuya1,
  3. Muhammad Younas2

Article first published online: 30 MAY 2012

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.2851

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Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

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Casado, R., Tuya, J. and Younas, M. (2012), Evaluating the effectiveness of the abstract transaction model in testing Web services transactions. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper.. doi: 10.1002/cpe.2851

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  1. 1

    Department of Computing, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

  2. 2

    Department of Computing and Communication Technologies, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

*Rubén Casado, Campus Universitario de Gijón, edificio polivalente, 2.7.12, 33204 Asturias, Spain.
E-mail: rcasado@uniovi.es

Publication History

  1. Article first published online: 30 MAY 2012
  2. Manuscript Revised: 3 APR 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 3 APR 2012
  4. Manuscript Received: 3 FEB 2012

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Keywords:

  • transactions;
  • Web services;
  • testing, failure detection, reliability

SUMMARY

Web services transactions are used to build efficient and reliable Web applications that are distributed across the Internet and are accessed by multiple simultaneous users. Current research develops various models and protocols to improve the performance and reliability of Web services transactions. However, there is little research on testing the different models and protocols of Web services transactions. This paper presents an abstract transaction model that patterns different Web services transactions standards. This model is capable of deriving concrete models to automatically generate test cases for different Web services transactions standards. The proposed model is implemented as a prototype system and is evaluated using a case of the Jboss Transaction. The evaluation shows that the proposed system has the capability to automatically generate test cases and detect possible failures of transactions running under different Web services transactions standards. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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