International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'06)
A Graph-Search Based Approach to BPEL4WS Test Generation
Tahiti, French Polynesia
October 29-November 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2703-5
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is a kind of concurrent programming languages with several special features that raise special challenges for verification and testing. This paper proposes a graph-search based approach to BPEL test case generation, which effectively deals with BPEL concurrency semantics. This approach defines an extension of CFG (Control Flow Graph) - BPEL Flow Graph (BFG) - to represent a BPEL program in a graphical model. Then concurrent test paths can be generated by traversing the BFG model, and test data for each path can be generated using a constraint solving method. Finally test paths and data are combined into complete test cases.
Index Terms:
BPEL; test generation; test path generation; graphsearch
Citation:
Yuan Yuan, Zhongjie Li, Wei Sun, "A Graph-Search Based Approach to BPEL4WS Test Generation," icsea, pp.14, International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA'06), 2006