Evaluating the quality of a software application for web services integration

Abstract

Due to the fast growth of web services integration, presenting a high quality integration solution has attracted considerable attention. Thus, the quality evaluation of these solutions has been actively investigated. On that basis a research topic was defined in collaboration with a small sized software company; Netoptions AB, to investigate the quality of the developed prototype in this study in which some web services were integrated. The present study started with a review of relevant literature on web services integration, service oriented architecture and software product quality. This step focused mainly to find the best solutions for: defining the proper solution for integrating the web services that currently are used at Netoptions AB and investigating its quality assessment. Among them ISO/IEC 9126 standard was selected for assessing the quality of the prototype in which existing web services at Netoptions AB were integrated. Finally an experiment was conducted to evaluate the prioritized attributes in the defined quality model of the prototype. The results of this study are the developed web application in which web services at Netoptions AB are integrated and also the measurement of the accuracy of the implemented integration and the defined comparison operation in the prototype. The result of the performed experiment demonstrates to what extent the developed prototype is operated accurately associated with the prioritized defined attributes.