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Mutant Generation for WSDL

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Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions

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Web Service technology is becoming increasingly popular because it simplifies the use and integration of existing applications and creation of new services. Because available services should be of high quality effective testing of Web Services is essential. The idea of mutation testing of Web Services is discussed in this paper and some mutation operators are described. A tool named Web Services Mutant Generator (WSMG), supporting the mutation testing of Web Services, is also presented. This tool accepts files with the description of Web Services written in WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and generates altered (mutated) versions of services using four mutation operators: OTCE, OTCA, STCE and STCA. The architecture and the implementation of the WSMG tool is shortly described and an example of its application is included.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665, Warsaw, Poland

    Ilona Bluemke & Wojciech Grudziński

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Mgmt, Wroclaw Univ of Tech Faculty of Computer Science and Mgmt, Wroclaw, Poland

    Lech Madeyski

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw, Poland

    Michał Śmiałek

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wroclaw University of Technology Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław, Poland

    Bogumiła Hnatkowska

  4. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wroclaw University of Technology Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wroclaw, Poland

    Zbigniev Huzar

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Bluemke, I., Grudziński, W. (2017). Mutant Generation for WSDL. In: Madeyski, L., Śmiałek, M., Hnatkowska, B., Huzar, Z. (eds) Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 504. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43606-7_8

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