Web services quality testing

Abstract

Steps for Web service (WS) quality testing are discussed. In the quality testing procedure first it is important to investigate how to qualitatively and quantitatively define the quality of web services. The quality of WS is a set of reliability (Re), security (Se), safety (Sa), maintainability (Ma), survivability (Su), availability (Av), testibility (Te), interoperability (In), performance (Pe) and fault tolerance (Ft). Principles, notations, guidelines, practices and methodologies should be build to direct software engineers to produce qualified web services. A mature and disciplined process should be established to improve the ability of developers to meet goals of cost, schedule, functionality and product quality.