Web Services Testing
By: Mark Lewis-Prazen
Exploring Testing Issues
A key to testing Web services is ensuring their
functional quality, because when you string
together a set of services, you introduce many
more opportunities for error or failure
Developers are typically poorly versed in security
coding scrutiny driven by performance issues
Few development organizations within enterprise
IT shops understand need for vulnerability testing
Testing was the last bastion of the waterfall
method. But even here the concept of a freeze is
ending;
Functionality Testing Challenges (contd).
Web services have more APIs (one per service) and
increased communication paths between those services
Increased level of integration and interoperability testing
Who owns this testing? Service provider? Service
requester? Both? Others?
How does trust get established?
Publish, Find and Bind Testing Challenges
Similar to testing 3rd party credit card application
processing thru a web app
Are services able to register themselves?
Can web app find and bind with services?
Who owns the tests? Provider? Requestor?
Trust issue?
Performance Testing Challenges
All these loosely-coupled, platform-independent,
highly scalable services are not free
Major performance problems typically are a result
of :
Large services without adequate hardware support
Small services with significant overhead
Layer on layer; abstraction on abstraction
Services distributed on a network with its own latency
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