Web Service Testing Tools - A Comparative Study
Quality of Service (QoS) has gained more importance with the increase in usage and adoption of web services. In recent years, various tools and techniques developed for measurement and evaluation of QoS of web services. There are commercial as well as open-source tools available today which are being used for monitoring and testing QoS for web services. These tools facilitate in QoS measurement and analysis and are helpful in evaluation of service performance in real-time network. In this paper, we describe three popular open-source tools and compare them in terms of features, usability, performance, and software requirements. Results of the comparison will help in adoption and usage of these tools, and also promote development and usage of open-source web service testing tools.
Keywords: Web Services, Performance, Software Testing, Testing Tools, Open-source Software
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Shariq Hussain
Shariq Hussain received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in 2007. He is now a PhD student in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His main research interests include web service QoS, web service monitoring, web service testing and e-learning.
Zhaoshun Wang
Zhaoshun Wang is a Professor and the Associate Head of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He graduated from Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University in 1993. He received his PhD from Beijing University of Science and Technology in　2002. He completed postdoctoral research work at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2003 to 2006. Teaching and research work, research direction has been engaged in the direction of computer software for software engineering, software security, information security, ASIC chip design. In recent years, participated in the national \"863\", \"973\", the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National \"Eleventh Five-Year\" password Fund, Outstanding Young Teachers Fund of the Ministry of Education, Beijing natural science fund of each one; auspices of the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee Project 2, and 8 Plant Association project topics. He has published more than 60 scientific papers in core computer science journals and international conferences, which retrieve an SCI, EI retrieval of more than 10 articles, ISTP retrieval of more than 10 articles; teaching and research of more than 10 papers. Further achievements include a provincial and municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, two national invention patents, two textbooks, and a monograph.
Ibrahima Kalil Toure
Ibrahima Kalil Toure received his Master’s degree in Programming Analysis from University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea, in 2000. He is now a PhD student in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His main research interests include web services and composition.
Abdoulaye Diop
Abdoulaye Diop is a PhD student in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His main research interests include wireless sensor networks and security.
Shariq Hussain
Shariq Hussain received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in 2007. He is now a PhD student in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His main research interests include web service QoS, web service monitoring, web service testing and e-learning.
Zhaoshun Wang
Zhaoshun Wang is a Professor and the Associate Head of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He graduated from Department of Mathematics, Beijing Normal University in 1993. He received his PhD from Beijing University of Science and Technology in　2002. He completed postdoctoral research work at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2003 to 2006. Teaching and research work, research direction has been engaged in the direction of computer software for software engineering, software security, information security, ASIC chip design. In recent years, participated in the national \"863\", \"973\", the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National \"Eleventh Five-Year\" password Fund, Outstanding Young Teachers Fund of the Ministry of Education, Beijing natural science fund of each one; auspices of the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee Project 2, and 8 Plant Association project topics. He has published more than 60 scientific papers in core computer science journals and international conferences, which retrieve an SCI, EI retrieval of more than 10 articles, ISTP retrieval of more than 10 articles; teaching and research of more than 10 papers. Further achievements include a provincial and municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, two national invention patents, two textbooks, and a monograph.
Ibrahima Kalil Toure
Ibrahima Kalil Toure received his Master’s degree in Programming Analysis from University of Conakry, Conakry, Guinea, in 2000. He is now a PhD student in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His main research interests include web services and composition.
Abdoulaye Diop
Abdoulaye Diop is a PhD student in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. His main research interests include wireless sensor networks and security.
