A comparative study and classification on web service security testing approaches

Web Services testing is essential to achieve the goal of scalable, robust and successful Web Services especially in business environment where maybe exist hundreds of Web Services working together. This Relatively new way of software development brings out new issues for Web Service testing to ensure the quality of service that are published, bound, invoked and integrated at runtime. Testing services poses new challenges to traditional testing approaches. Dynamic scenario of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is also altering the traditional view of security and causes new risks. The great importance of this field has attracted the attention of researchers. In this paper, in addition of presenting a survey and classification of the main existing web service testing approaches, web service security testing researches and their issues are investigated.