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WS-TaaS: A testing as a service platform for Web Service load testing

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Web services are widely known as the building blocks of typical service oriented applications. The performance of such an application system is mainly dependent on that of component web services. Thus the effective load testing of web services is of great importance to understand and improve the performance of a service oriented system. However, existing Web Service load testing tools ignore the real characteristics of the practical running environment of a web service, which leads to inaccurate test results. In this work, we present WS-TaaS, a load testing platform for web services, which enables load testing process to be as close as possible to the real running scenarios. In this way, we aim at providing testers with more accurate performance testing results than existing tools. WS-TaaS is developed on the basis of our existing Cloud PaaS platform: Service4All. First, we briefly introduce the functionalities and main components of Service4All. Second, we provide detailed analysis of the requirements of Web Service load testing and present the conceptual architecture and design of key components. Third, we present the implementation details of WS-TaaS on the basis of Service4All. Finally, we perform a set of experiments based on the testing of real web services, and the experiments illustrate that WS-TaaS can efficiently facilitate the whole process of Web Service load testing. Especially, comparing with existing testing tools, WS-TaaS can obtain more effective and accurate test results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012
Pages456-463
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 17 Dec 201219 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - ICPADS
ISSN (Print)1521-9097

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, ICPADS 2012
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period17/12/1219/12/12

Keywords

  • Cloud computing
  • Load testing
  • Testing as a service
  • Web services

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