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Web services are widely used as software components that must provide a robust interface to client applications. Robustness testing is an approach particularly suitable for detecting robustness issues in web services. In fact, several research works have been conducted in the past leading to the proposal of different robustness testing techniques for such environments. However, although of utmost importance, most techniques do not consider the needs of complex systems and services as the ones being developed by the software industry for business and safety critical scenarios. The chapter makes a brief overview on the web service robustness approaches, as well as providing the actual solution available both in scientific literature and on the market for automatically carried put the tests. Stemming from this analysis, the authors show the limitation of those tools in being exploited in the industrial environment, and they describe a new tool capable of addressing the industrial needs.
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Napolitano, A., Carrozza, G., Laranjeiro, N., Vieira, M. (2013). Robustness Testing of Web Services. In: Cotroneo, D. (eds) Innovative Technologies for Dependable OTS-Based Critical Systems. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2772-5_5
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