Testing Web Services in the Cloud

2012 ◽  
pp. 136-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry M. Sneed
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Actual Profile ◽  
Interface Definition

Cloud Computing makes it possible for users to access a wide range of web services in the public domain and to embed these global services in their local applications. This promises to save a significant amount of individual development cost. The biggest obstacle to using this technology is the problem of trust. To gain trust in the services offered they have to be extensively tested, either by the user himself or by a trusted agent. This chapter deals with the testing of web services in the cloud. There are many similarities to testing web services in a local service-oriented architecture, but there are also significant differences. In a company specific SOA, testers can gain access to the source. This is not true of the cloud. There is no possibility of accessing the source. Therefore, testers must rely solely on the specification contained in the service level agreement – SLA – and the web service interface definition – WSDL or REST – to base their test upon. Testing in the cloud is strictly a black-box test. The goal of a cloud service test is also not to find errors but to assess the suitability of the service to the purpose of the user. It may be necessary to test several services in order to find that one best suited to the requirements of the user. To judge suitability it is necessary to define an ideal usage profile, including performance, security and other non-functional criteria, and to compare that with the actual profile of each potential service. For this both static and dynamic analysis methods must be applied. The chapter presents an automated approach to assessing cloud services and selecting that one most suitable to the user’s application.

A Theoretical Foundation of Demand Driven Web Services

2015 ◽  
pp. 392-422
Author(s):  
Zhaohao Sun ◽  
John Yearwood
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
The Web

Web services are playing a pivotal role in business, management, governance, and society with the dramatic development of the Internet and the Web. However, many fundamental issues are still ignored to some extent. For example, what is the unified perspective to the state-of-the-art of Web services? What is the foundation of Demand-Driven Web Services (DDWS)? This chapter addresses these fundamental issues by examining the state-of-the-art of Web services and proposing a theoretical and technological foundation for demand-driven Web services with applications. This chapter also presents an extended Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), eSMACS SOA, and examines main players in this architecture. This chapter then classifies DDWS as government DDWS, organizational DDWS, enterprise DDWS, customer DDWS, and citizen DDWS, and looks at the corresponding Web services. Finally, this chapter examines the theoretical, technical foundations for DDWS with applications. The proposed approaches will facilitate research and development of Web services, mobile services, cloud services, and social services.

SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 660 ◽  
pp. 196-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
Zhu Hong ◽  
Nueraimaiti Aimaier ◽  
Zhu Guo Li
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

Cloud Computing is not a revolution; it’s an evolution of computer science and technology emerging by leaps and bounds, in order to merge all computer science tools and technologies. Cloud Computing technology is hottest to do research and explore new horizons of next generations of Computer Science. There are number of cloud services providers (Amazon EC2), Rackspace Cloud, Terremark and Google Compute Engine) but still enterprises and common users have a number of concerns over cloud service providers. Still there is lot of weakness, challenges and issues are barrier for cloud service providers in order to provide cloud services according to SLA (Service Level agreement). Especially, service provisioning according to SLAs is core objective of each cloud service provider with maximum performance as per SLA. We have identified those challenges issues, as well as proposed new methodology as “SLA (Service Level Agreement) Driven Orchestration Based New Methodology for Cloud Computing Services”. Currently, cloud service providers are using “orchestrations” fully or partially to automate service provisioning but we are trying to integrate and drive orchestration flows from SLAs. It would be new approach to provision cloud service and deliver cloud service as per SLA, satisfying QoS standards.

scholarly journals Web Services Composition Using Dynamic Classification and Simulated Annealing

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 395
Author(s):  
Issam AlHadid ◽  
Evon Abu-Taieh
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Synchronous Mode ◽  
Services Composition ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
The Web

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) introduced the web services as distributed computing components that can be independently deployed and invoked by other services or software to provide simple or complex tasks. In this paper we propose a novel approach to solve the problem of the business processes execution engine web service selection and services composition in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) related to the Synchronous mode.  The paper provides a mechanism to improve the web services selection and service composition, using dynamic web services and service composition classification and Simulated Annealing (SA) to satisfy services' requirements expressed as the Service Level Agreement (SLA). The results show that the proposed approach enhanced the services composition by increasing the availability and decreasing the response time to the service composite.

Event Pattern Discovery in Multi-Cloud Service-Based Applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysostomos Zeginis ◽  
Kyriakos Kritikos ◽  
Dimitris Plexousakis
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Critical Event ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Application Deployment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Multiple Clouds ◽  
Multi Cloud

The adoption of Cloud computing in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) world is continuously increasing. However, as developers try to optimize their application deployment cost and performance, they may also deploy application parts redundantly on different VMs. In such heterogeneous and distributed environments, it is important to have a clear view of the system's state and its components' interrelationships. This paper aims at proposing a novel monitoring and adaptation framework for Service-based Applications (SBAs) deployed on multiple Clouds. The main functionality of this framework is the discovery of critical event patterns within monitoring event streams, leading to specific Service Level Objective (SLO) violations. Furthermore, two main meta-models are proposed for describing the SBA's components and their dependencies, and the supported adaptation actions in a specific context respectively. The proposed approach is empirically evaluated based on a real-world traffic management application.

scholarly journals Priority-Based Virtual Machine Selection Algorithm in Cloud Computing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1457-1462
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
Virtual Machines ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Service Provider

Cloud computing technology has gained the attention of researchers in recent years. Almost every application is using cloud computing in one way or another. Virtualization allows running many virtual machines on a single physical computer by sharing its resources. Users can store their data on datacenter and run their applications from anywhere using the internet and pay as per service level agreement documents accordingly. It leads to an increase in demand for cloud services and may decrease the quality of service. This paper presents a priority-based selection of virtual machines by cloud service provider. The virtual machines in the cloud datacenter are configured as Amazon EC2 and algorithm is simulated in cloud-sim simulator. The results justify that proposed priority-based virtual machine algorithm shortens the makespan, by 11.43 % and 5.81 %, average waiting time by 28.80 % and 24.50%, and cost of using the virtual machine by 21.24% and 11.54% as compared to FCFS and ACO respectively, hence improving quality of service.

scholarly journals Web Services Composition Using Dynamic Classification and Simulated Annealing

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Issam AlHadid ◽  
Evon Abu-Taieh
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Service Composition ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Synchronous Mode ◽  
Services Composition ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
The Web

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) introduced the web services as distributed computing components that can be independently deployed and invoked by other services or software to provide simple or complex tasks. In this paper we propose a novel approach to solve the problem of the business processes execution engine web service selection and services composition in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) related to the Synchronous mode.  The paper provides a mechanism to improve the web services selection and service composition, using dynamic web services and service composition classification and Simulated Annealing (SA) to satisfy services' requirements expressed as the Service Level Agreement (SLA). The results show that the proposed approach enhanced the services composition by increasing the availability and decreasing the response time to the service composite.

Carrier-Grade Distributed Cloud Computing

2013 ◽  
pp. 264-281
Author(s):  
Dapeng Wang ◽  
Jinsong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Security Network ◽  
Distributed Cloud

This chapter discusses and surveys the concepts, demands, requirements, solutions, opportunities, challenges, and future perspectives and potential of Carrier Grade Cloud Computing (CGCC). This chapter also introduces a carrier grade distributed cloud computing architecture and discusses the benefits and advantages of carrier grade distributed cloud computing. Unlike independent cloud service providers, telecommunication operators may integrate their conventional communications networking capabilities with the new cloud infrastructure services to provide inexpensive and high quality cloud services together with their deep understandings of, and strong relationships with, individual and enterprise customers. The relevant design requirements and challenges may include the performance, scalability, service-level agreement management, security, network optimization, and unified management. The relevant key issues in CGCC designs may include cost effective hardware and software configurations, distributed infrastructure deployment models, and operation processes.

scholarly journals Service Level Agreement Violations in Cloud Storage: Insurance and Compensation Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Mastroeni ◽  
Alessandro Mazzoccoli ◽  
Maurizio Naldi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Storage ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Insurance Premium ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Provider ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
Cloud Providers ◽  
Qos Metrics

Service Level Agreements are employed to set availability commitments in cloud services. When a violation occurs as in an outage, cloud providers may be called to compensate customers for the losses incurred. Such compensation may be so large as to erode cloud providers’ profit margins. Insurance may be used to protect cloud providers against such a danger. In this paper, closed formulas are provided through the expected utility paradigm to set the insurance premium under different outage models and QoS metrics (no. of outages, no. of long outages, and unavailability). When the cloud service is paid through a fixed fee, we also provide the maximum unit compensation that a cloud provider can offer so as to meet constraints on its profit loss. The unit compensation is shown to vary approximately as the inverse square of the service fee.

An Adaptive Service Monitoring System in a Cloud Computing Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Sathiyamoorthy E. ◽  
Karthikeyan P
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Service Level Agreement ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Cloud Computing Environment

Cloud computing is a trending area of information technology (IT). In a cloud environment, the Cloud service provider (CSP) provides all the functionalities to the users or customers in terms of services. With the rapid development of cloud computing, the performance of any cloud environment relies on the quality of services (QoS) at the time of providing the services. A service level agreement (SLA) increases the confidence of the user or customer to use the cloud services in a cloud environment. There should be negotiation between the CSP and users to achieve a strong SLA. Many existing SLA models are already developed. However, these models do not concentrate to maintain the quality in a long-time duration period. To solve this issue, a novel SLA model has been proposed in this article by using Fuzzy logic. Both the theoretical and simulation results show the proficiency of the proposed scheme over the existing schemes in a cloud computing environment.

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