Automated Model Checking and Testing for Composite Web Services

Web Services form a new distributed computing paradigm. Collaborative verification and validation are important when Web Services from different vendors are integrated together to carry out a coherent task. This paper presents a new approach to verify Web Services by model checking the process model of OWL-S (Web Ontology Language for Web Services) and to validate them by the test cases automatically generated in the model checking process. We extend the BLAST, a model checker that handles control flow model naturally, to handle the concurrency in OWL-S. We also propose enhancement in OWL-S and PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) to facilitate the automated test case generation. Experiments on realistic examples are provided to illustrate the process.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ISORC
• Authors: Hai Huang, Wei-Tek Tsai, Raymond A. Paul, Yinong Chen
• Keywords: ISORC 2005, Model Checking, Software Engineering, Test Case, Web Services