Testing and Verifying Web Services: From the Researcher's Perspective

As service-oriented architecture matures and more Web
services become available, developers must test an
ever-increasing volume of services. In the meantime,
SOA advocates run-time system integration of loosely
coupled services across heterogeneous platforms in a
distributed environment and also improves the
flexibility of system development. However,
trustworthiness becomes a serious problem
and corresponding techniques have to be brought to
the table. This challenging topic constitutes the
majority of my research content during my three and a
half years of PhD studies. This book comes from my
PhD dissertation. In this book, I introduced an
effective verification framework that can greatly
reduce the effort for the rapid testing and dynamic
verification of SOA applications and Web Services.
This verification framework consists of two key
components: a underlying testing mechanism to support
the static testing of services, and a policy-based
dynamic verification mechanism to guard the service
collaboration and composition on the fly.