TeDSA 2011 - TeDSA 1st International Workshop on Testing Data Service based Applications

Currently Service-oriented architecture (SOA) becomes the most popular choice for enterprise applications to improve flexibility, reusability and agility. Data services are introduced to enable the insulation of applications and business services from the physical implementation of data integration, enabling greater flexibility and optimization of data placement, access and quality. A data service is software that performs a data integration task and conforms to the definition of service. SOA implies a clear separation between the consumers of data and the storage and delivery of data. Services that exclusively perform data-oriented tasks at the request of business services, applications and processes will provide this separation, which will be the key to meeting the data challenges of SOA.

The concept of data-as-a-service (DaaS) basically advocates the view that any business process can access data wherever it resides. Data-as-a-service began with the notion that data quality could happen in a centralized place, cleansing and enriching data and offering it to different systems, applications or users, irrespective of where they were in the organization or on the network.
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Testing services, and specially data services, have new challengers such as the persistent data of the system needs to be accounted for in order to derive the test suite. Also the processing of queries and the transaction management add new goals for the research community. This first edition of the workshop will be organized as a part of he QSIC 2011. It aims at assessing the current approaches and technologies, as well as to outline the major challenges and future perspectives identifying issues in testing data service based applications.