On quality assurance of web services in agile projects: an experience report

  • Authors:
  • Ghita Koaudri Mostefaoui;Andrew Simpson

  • Affiliations:
  • Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, United Kngdm;Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, United Kngdm

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Software engineering for pervasive services
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The diversity of technologies web service implementations rely upon, together with their increasing use in critical applications, means that careful thought must be given to rigorous and systematic testing of their multiple aspects. This paper describes experiences in testing web services in the context of a project that is utilising an iterative development process. The project, GIMI (Generic Infrastructure for Medical Informatics), is developing a pervasive service-oriented data fabric to support a variety of healthcare applications. We focus primarily on the planning and implementation of the tests utilised within GIMI, and explore the different steps of our regression testing approach. It is hoped that this contribution will serve as an initial starting point for a manifesto for testing web services.