University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science
JIMY CHANG
will defend his thesis
A WEB SERVICE TESTING TOOL
Abstract
After a huge growth in Web Services, it is now necessary to debug and test them
accordingly. It is less acceptable for them to have broken and unusable
features because of their frequent use and deployment. One can argue that in
the vigorous drive to reduce costs and increase the consumer base, a fully
functionally service is more than necessary. As such, a low development time
coupled with an effective debugging tool would be very advantageous. This
thesis provides such a tool by creating a generic client which Web Services can
be tested. Using Reflection and static proxies created from Web Services
Description Language (WSDL), this tool is able to de-couple the service from
its client during the development stage. In essence, we have a client that can
mimic the remote function calls from most clients and also provide an interface
to other testing utilities. The benefits of our tool are at least threefold:
early detection of bugs and defects, lower development time, and more robust
code.
Date: Thursday, July
21, 2005
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: 550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr.