Improving Trust in Composite eServices Via Run-Time Participants Testing

  • Authors:
  • Flavio Corradini;Francesco Angelis;Andrea Polini;Alberto Polzonetti

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy 62032;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy 62032;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy 62032;Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy 62032

  • Venue:
  • EGOV '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic Government
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm promises to open and integrate Public Administration offices in order to provide high-value e-services to citizens. Nevertheless to foster real usage of e-services by citizens, in majority still not fully acquainted with Internet technologies, it is necessary to put in place mechanisms to reduce as much as possible perceived system misbehavior. e-Services often handle personal and sensible data, therefore trust on the behavior of the system becomes of primary importance. In this paper, focusing on run-time composition of e-services, we provide an approach that reduces the possibility that the system will fail as consequence of interoperability issues among run-time discovered services, and after that sensible data have been provided by the citizen. The approach uses run-time testing to assess interoperability between services, and model-checking based techniques to reduce the number of test-cases to be applied. An exemplificative case-study is also illustrated and discussed.