Testing-Based Selection Method for Integrability on Service-Oriented Applications

Service-Oriented Computing allows building applications by reusing web-accessible services. However, current approaches still involve a large effort both at discovery of services and their successful integration. This paper presents a novel approach to help developers to easily deal with discovery, selection and integration of services, and it is based on two recent approaches addressing software maintainability. The first one, called EasySOC, provides specific semi-automated methods for both discovery and integration of services. The second one, initially developed for substitutability of component-based systems, supplies a method for selection of an appropriate third-party candidate component or service, by applying black-box testing techniques. In this paper we present the usefulness of the selection method within the whole approach.