Service‐oriented architecture (SOA) is gaining momentum as an emerging distributed
system architecture for business‐to‐business collaborations. This momentum can be …

Field testing refers to testing techniques that operate in the field to reveal those faults that
escape in-house testing. Field testing techniques are becoming increasingly popular with …

Abstract The Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm is allowing computer systems to
interact with each other in new ways. According to the literature, SOC allows composition of …

Testing is useful to establish trust between service providers and clients. To test the service-
oriented applications, automated and specification-based test generation and test …

Biosequence similarity search is an important application in modern molecular biology.
Search algorithms aim to identify sets of sequences whose extensional similarity suggests a …

Software testers are confronted with great challenges in testing Web Services (WS)
especially when integrating to services owned by other vendors. They must deal with the …

Generating realistic test data is a major problem for software testers. Realistic test data
generation for certain input types is hard to automate and therefore laborious. We propose a …

This paper examines the use of Design by Contract for web service descriptions, and
explores the issues and solutions of automatic test case generation and test oracle …

Increasingly, service-based applications (SBAs) are composed of third-party services
available over the Internet. Even if third-party services have shown to work during design …

Industrial cyber-physical systems require complex distributed software to orchestrate many
heterogeneous mechatronic components and control multiple physical processes. Industrial …