Automatically generating realistic test input from web services

• Published in: 2011 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Service Oriented System pp. 13 - 24
• Main Authors: Bozkurt, M., Harman, M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2011
• Subjects: Educational institutions; Humans; Ontologies; Semantics; Service oriented architecture; Testing

Generating realistic test data is a major problem for software testers. Realistic test data generation for certain input types is hard to automate and therefore laborious. We propose a novel automated solution to test data generation that exploits existing web services as sources of realistic test d...