An Approach of Web Service Quality Attributes Specification

Samer Hanna and Ali Alawneh

IT Faculty — Philadelphia University, Jerash — Jordan
 

Copyright © 2010 Samer Hanna and Ali Alawneh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License unported 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Web Services are considered a new way of building software applications based on Services that are available through the Internet. However, Web Services still face many problems that are limiting their adoption. One of the causes of this problem is the lack of metadata about the quality attributes of Web Services, which make Service Requesters reluctant to integrate Web Service with their applications. This paper proposes a novel ontology that describes a model of the requester-oriented Web Services’ quality attributes. The ontology is based on previous quality models which have been refined and modified specifically to address the quality issues as they relate to the requester of Web Services. Also an analysis will describe how some of the quality attributes in the previous model can be evaluated using different types of test cases.

Keywords: Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Quality Attributes, Testing
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