Survey on Service Oriented Architecture Testing

This paper presents a survey of SOA testing. SOA drives the software through web services.  Web services present important challenges to software testers. These challenges have led to much complex task for testing web services.  The present paper comprehensive survey of existing work. According to Papazoglou [1], SOC is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the lightweight constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications. This is a widely used definition of SOA.