As service-oriented architecture matures and more Web services become available, developers must test an ever-increasing volume of services. In the meantime, SOA advocates run-time system integration of loosely coupled services across heterogeneous platforms in a distributed environment and also improves the flexibility of system development. However, trustworthiness becomes a serious problem and corresponding techniques have to be brought to the table.
This challenging topic constitutes the majority of my research content during my three and a half years of PhD studies. This book comes from...