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Interoperability testing for e-government web services

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Giorgos Pentafronimos,

Spyridon Papastergiou,

Nineta PolemiAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance

Pages 316 - 321

https://doi.org/10.1145/1509096.1509162

Published: 01 December 2008 Publication History

Abstract

The provision of Web Service-based services in many areas of the digital world such as the e-Government still involves addressing interoperability of these services. Several testing methodologies that evaluate the interoperability of the services indicate the need for a machine-readable representation of the test cases allowing the automation of the test process. Existing languages for representing test cases demonstrate specific weaknesses. This paper identifies these weaknesses and proposes a sequence of steps for the definition of test cases and a XML representation of them based on the XML Requirement and Test language (XRT).

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ICEGOV '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance

December 2008

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ISBN:9781605583860

DOI:10.1145/1509096

Editors:
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ICEGOV '08: 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

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Islam MScupola A(2013)E-Service Research Trends in the Domain of E-GovernmentMobile Opportunities and Applications for E-Service Innovations10.4018/978-1-4666-2654-6.ch009(152-169)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2654-6.ch009
Islam MScupola A(2011)E-Service Research Trends in the Domain of E-GovernmentInternational Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications10.4018/jesma.20110101033:1(39-56)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2011
https://doi.org/10.4018/jesma.2011010103
Papastergiou SPolemi DDouligeris C(2010)SWEB: An Advanced Mobile Residence Certificate ServiceNext Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_38(421-430)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_38

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