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

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 …

Future software systems will operate in a highly dynamic world. Systems will need to operate
correctly despite of unespected changes in factors such as environmental conditions, user …

Abstract Testing of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) plays a critical role in ensuring a
successful deployment in any enterprise. SOA testing must span several levels, from …

Natural language (NL) interfaces for database query formulation have always been
recognized as a much needed enhancement for end-users. Poor performances with earlier …

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 …

Test oracle methods have changed significantly over time, which has resulted in clear shifts
in the research literature. Over the years, the testing techniques, strategies, and criteria …

Increasingly, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is becoming a dominant mechanism for the
consumption of software by end users. From a vendor's perspective, the benefits of SaaS …

A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service
composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors are compatible with its original …

A web service interface contains information about the names of the operations that can be
invoked on the service and the input and output parameters of these operations. The Web …