Test and Analysis of Web Services [Hardcover]

The authors have here put together the first reference on all aspects of testing and validating service-oriented architectures. With contributions by leading academic and industrial research groups it offers detailed guidelines for the actual validation process. Readers will find a comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art approaches as well as techniques and tools to improve the quality of service-oriented applications. It also includes references and scenarios for future research and development.

Analysis.- Specifying and Monitoring Service Flows: Making Web Services Process-Aware.- Analyzing Conversations: Realizability, Synchronizability, and Verification.- WS-Engineer: A Model-Based Approach to Engineering Web Service Compositions and Choreography.- Model Checking with Abstraction for Web Services.- Testing.- Unit Testing BPEL Compositions.- A Model-Driven Approach to Discovery, Testing and Monitoring of Web Services.- Web Services Regression Testing.- Monitoring.- Run-Time Monitoring in Service-Oriented Architectures.- Monitoring WS-Agreements: An Event CalculusBased Approach.- Assumption-Based Composition and Monitoring of Web Services.- Reliability, Security, and Trust.- Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Service-Oriented Architectures.- Vulnerability Analysis of Web-based Applications.- Challenges of Testing Web Services and Security in SOA Implementations.- ws-Attestation: Enabling Trusted Computing on Web Services.

Luciano Baresi is associate professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione at Politecnico di Milano. Luciano has published and presented some 50 papers on the most important national and international journals and conferences. His research interests are on dynamic software architectures, with special emphasis service-oriented applications.

Elisabetta Di Nitto is associate professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione at Politecnico di Milano. Her current researlc&