TAV-WEB 2004

Workshop on Testing, Analysis and Verification of Web Services

In conjunction with ISSTA 2004
Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, July 11, 2004

Workshop Program, Slides from the Presentations and the Discussion Summary

Invited Presentation

``Visualizing the Execution of Web Services,'' Wim De Pauw, IBM Research.

Web Services is becoming the lingua franca for loosely coupled distributed applications. As the number of nodes and the complexity of these applications will grow over the coming years, it will become more challenging for developers to understand, debug, and optimize these large applications. In this talk, we will explain how visualization can help to address these problems. The tool Websight, that we are building, monitors Web Services communication and displays the result as a series of interactive visualizations, allowing developers to observe and explore the dynamic behavior of their Web Services configurations.

Suggestions for Lunch

Faneuil Hall Marketplace is a few blocks away from the workshop location and will be open from 12:00pm to 6:00pm on July 11.

Register for TAV-WEB 2004

Registration fee for TAV-WEB is $50. You do NOT have to register for ISSTA in order to register for TAV-WEB (i.e., you do NOT have to pay the ISSTA registration fee if you just want to attend TAV-WEB).

Purpose and Scope

The past few years have seen the explosive growth of Web-based applications. Interactive Web applications, that users interact with through browsers, are commonplace in many application domains including retail (such as Amazon and Travelocity) and finance (such as on-line trading and banking). The proliferation of these applications has created the demand to automate interactions so that programs can do what humans must currently do manually (from scouring for low prices to booking tickets). This trend, the creation of Web services, has inspired a new wave of languages and standards such as SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and BPEL to support these programmatic interfaces.

Developing reliable software for interactive Web applications and the underlying Web services will require effective testing, analysis and verification techniques and tools that address not only the needs of software in general but also the peculiar demands of this domain. These demands include unusual interaction patterns, asynchronous communication models, a greater reliance on published interfaces and protocols than is common in single-language and single-platform libraries, and so on. These demands will require and inspire new techniques and corresponding tools, which will form the focus of this workshop. Topics of interest include contributions that address

The purpose of this workshop will be to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community interested in testing, analysis and verification of Web services.

Program Committee

Thomas Ball Microsoft Research
Tevfik Bultan (co-chair) University of California, Santa Barbara
Luca de Alfaro University of California, Santa Cruz
Wim De Pauw IBM Research
Richard Hull Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Shriram Krishnamurthi (co-chair) Brown University
A. Jefferson Offutt George Mason University
Michael I. Schwartzbach University of Aarhus, BRICS

Organizers

Tevfik Bultan (bultan@cs.ucsb.edu) University of California, Santa Barbara

Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk@cs.brown.edu) Brown University