Service-Oriented Architecture Testing Design and Practices

Testing is an indispensable part of software development, and the testing techniques must keep always evolving to address the new behaviors of software applications. The procedural and object-oriented paradigms have been driving the software development for a long time. A new paradigm is been progressively explored: the service-oriented. This new model is composed by three entities that have the following functionalities: to publish a service (the service provider); to find, to invoke a service (the service requester); to bind, and to store available services (the service registry). This paper introduces the concepts of service-oriented architecture, and presents some innovative testing design and practices for verifying and validating service-oriented applications.