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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2010
Chang-sup Keum, Daejeon-si, KR;
Sang-ki Kim, Daejeon-si, KR;
Byung-sun Lee, Daejeon-si, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for testing web service interoperability. The apparatus includes a state model generator generating a state model of a composition system expressing an operation of exchanging a message when web services interoperate with each other as a state machine on the basis of content of a simple object access protocol (SOAP) service description language (SSDL) web service specification, a test structure generator generating a web service test structure by including information about an operating environment in which a web service test is carried out in a composition system structure that includes structured information about web services performing a message exchange operation, a test case generator generating a test case including definitions of execution functions for testing whether or not the web services interoperate with each other according to a message exchange operation sequence defined in the SSDL specification, from the state model of the composition system and information about the web service test structure, and a test case executor inputting a value to the test case to cause test target web services to execute the test case and testing whether the web services interoperate with each other according to the message exchange operation sequence defined in the SSDL specification.