Web Service Testing: New Challenges, New Approaches

Conference Plenary at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2010 (February 2010)

Dr. Sukanta Bhatt, Senior Architect - Testing and Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, Senior Scientist, Philips Electronics India Ltd.

As organizations expand business and operate from varied geographical locations, the need for interoperability among heterogeneous systems and applications is inevitable. Many organizations initiate SOA approach with web services to connect and reuse business processes. To begin with, they adopt web services that enable them to exploit the legacy systems and key business logic. These web services – headless by nature -- are distributed and have a unique mechanism for inter-service communication. And, these factors do pose new challenges in testing. PH products cater to standalone, client-server and enterprise needs of healthcare providers.

Web Services Security Testing with a focus on XML Signature

Paper Presentation – at STeP-IN SUMMIT 2008(January 2008) .
Parth Srivastava — Test Manager,Infosys Technologies Limited.

Web Services based on Service Oriented Architecture offer huge benefits like Interoperability, Usability, Reusability, Deploy ability, and Reliability. These benefits are accompanied by risks, which are inherent to the nature of SOAP messages and Service Oriented Architecture. To ensure that Web Services are able to offer the published features under all situations, proper validation of Web Services. The primary areas that need to be tested while deploying Web Services are