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REST services are nowadays being used to support many businesses, with most major companies exposing their services via REST interfaces (e.g., Google, Amazon, Instagram, and Slack). In this type of scenarios, heterogeneity is prevalent and software is sometimes exposed to unexpected conditions that may activate residual bugs, leading service operations to fail. Such failures may lead to financial or reputation losses (e.g., information disclosure). Although techniques and tools for assessing robustness have been thoroughly studied and applied to a large diversity of domains, REST services still lack practical approaches that specialize in robustness evaluation. In this paper, we present a tool (named bBOXRT) for performing robustness tests over REST services, solely based on minimal information expressed in their interface descriptions. We used bBOXRT to evaluate an heterogeneous set of 52 REST services that comprise 1,351 operations and fit in distinct categories (e.g., public, private, in-house). We were able to disclose several different types of robustness problems, including issues in services with strong reliability requirements and also a few security vulnerabilities. The results show that REST services are being deployed preserving software defects that harm service integration, and also carrying security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malicious users.

One of the most effective solutions in the preventive endeavors for infectious diseases such as the COVID-19 pandemic is the application of frequent hand washing. In developing countries, there are several low cost touch-free hand washing solutions involving the use of foot operated mechanisms. However, the use of embedded processors in the design of automatic electronic systems to provide convenience and smarter solutions has in recent times gained unique attention globally. In this paper, we employed an Arduino based microcontroller as processor and ultrasonic based distance sensors to implement a touch-free hand washing mechanism. The microcontroller processes received sensor signals and sends desired command signals to operate two DC motors. A DC pump and servo motor are used to facilitate simple yet effective dispensation of water and soap respectively without any physical contact with the user. The simulation of the developed system was performed with Proteus. The system is also experimentally verified to meet the desired design requirements.

Web service plays an important role in the new paradigm of distributed computing over the Internet. Web service allows to combine different publicly available services together to create new functionalities. Many public web services can be used at free of cost. Two important elements of web services are Web Services Description Language (WSDL) used for describing and locating web services and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) used for communicating between applications via the Internet. The consumers of web services are always keen to differentiate between QoS-aware and QoS-unaware web services. Measuring QoS is the prerequisite for designing QoS-aware web services. Therefore, a number of metrics need to be identified. Because of the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the web services infrastructure, providing the acceptable QoS is really a challenging task. In this paper we have identified three dominating features–response time, reliability and security–that governs the QoS of a web service. The objective of this work is to carry out a comparative study between publicly available web services by measuring different metrics of QoS for these web services. Hence, using different open-source tools we propose a simplified approach to measure those QoS metrics for publicly available web services. Based on our approach, QoS-aware web services can easily be built from publicly available services.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrates computing and communication resources with sensing and actuation functionalities, for physical world entities and processes. CPS realizes connections of the computational and communications infrastructures with the physical reality. Integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, CPS is already involved in various applications in building industrial systems, according to the Industry 4.0 concept. Internal and cross-organizational services associated with the production value chains can also be realized. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) proved to be an efficient approach for CPS architectures, being able to cope with the heterogeneity of the industrial systems, to assure interoperability. In this paper we propose a CPS architecture, using a SOA approach, integrating a Soap ad Rest and based gateway, which enables a seamless interoperability within the industrial and manufacturing processes and services providing in business environment. Through the gateway, the CPS resources and services can be accessed by mobile clients through Smartphones.

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) represents an autonomous system which integrates sensing devices, actuators, hardware equipments and software applications, having also communication functionality. A CPS can realize data transmission and cooperation with remote systems and IoT networks. Within smart factories, having the ability of involving business scenarios, CPS autonomously exchange data, control and monitor processes, perform actions in the Industry 4.0 context. Correlated with CPS interoperability capabilities, a new paradigm in manufacturing appeared, based on collaborative, service-oriented, customer-centric industries. Various new business models involve a large, exponentially growing number, of interconnected devices. In this paper is presented a CPS services framework, which integrates an e-business service group within a collaborative infrastructure, thus offering to the users the possibility to valorify on the market, through services integration and collaboration, the remarkable technical advantages of CPS. As e-business example, an e-payment service, developed in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), is considered. The data transactions are realized on mobile and wireless communication channels, through Soap and Rest Web services, which are accessed by mobile client software application, installed on Android OS Smartphones.

Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID19) is a disease caused by the new coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This disease has infected almost the entire world with a total of 47.5 million sufferers and a death toll of 1.2 million people so that WHO categorizes it as a global pandemic. The COVID19 case in Indonesia still shows an increasing trend even though various prevention efforts have been made. Proven efforts to reduce the spread of COVID19 include limiting physical interactions between humans or physical distance, maintaining the cleanliness of hands and limbs by washing with soap, and limiting outdoor activities by staying at home. Several government and private agencies have required employees to report their health conditions via web pages. Real-time and accurate mobile applications can help prevent the spread of COVID19. This research will develop a real-time monitoring and command system using mobile applications and cloud computing technology. The application will collect GPS-based location data, the number of people in the vicinity identified via Bluetooth, and the user's body condition in the form of temperature and oxygen levels in the blood. User data is stored and processed in a real time database in cloud computing which can be accessed through an application on the user's smartphone. The database also stores data on Covid19 sufferers and where they live. The application provides alerts when in a crowd and notifies the status of the region the user is in. Advice is given by the app when the recording of the body condition points to the early symptoms of COVID19.

This paper proposes a practical, low-cost circuit for the operation and control of a final control element (valve). The circuit presented in the paper uses an Infrared (IR) proximity sensor for object detection for triggering and 555 timer IC for precise time monitoring. The proposed system is intended to be used in soap and sanitizer dispensers installed at public places in this case in the university premises to assess the effectiveness. It may be proved very effective in mitigating the risk of the spread of Covid-19 due to the soap and sanitizer dispensers used at public places and the time monitoring capability of the proposed design allows the end-user to ensure the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for hand hygiene. Finally, theoretical concepts are validated using experimental results presented in the paper.

Open Illimitable Space System (OpenISS) is a suite of graphics and motion capture libraries and the poised open source core for Illimitable Space System v2 (ISSv2), which typically is deployed for multimodal interaction and provides a platform for artists to enhance their performance by leveraging modern day technology on stage. Recently, we extended the OpenISS by enabling SOAP and REST APIs, to make it more flexible and scalable architecture being available as a service for broadcasting over the Internet. We share our experience regarding turning a depth camera (Kinect) and OpenCV as services (both SOAP and REST) within the OpenISS framework. With such services, we are able to request images or even video frames with different effects applied to the same scene in near-real-time and rendered within end-users browsers or other clients that consume REST or SOAP APIs. This work is built as an application on top of various kinds of libraries and techniques included in OpenISS, such as OpenCV, freenect, fakenect, openFrameworks as components.

This paper continues previous research that has been done in the direction of the Prediction Framework, also known as Autonomous Open Data Prediction Framework. Going through and highlights Open Data Business Model step-by-step procedures found in the literature. Afterward, Orchestrating Business Processes is represented with ERP Systems that Enables Standards for Enabling Business Level Modeling. The technologies such as Web Services, XML, SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, WSFL, XLANG, ORDS that are confrontation between those six methods in end representation is shown in the Integration Processes concept. Able to increase business value by increasing the efficiency of data availability between data sources and ERP systems. The objective is to develop an integration process concept that can be implemented into ERP systems within the prediction framework.

The main goal of DeLC (Distributed eLearning Center) system is to provide students and teachers with an interactive, proactive and personalized e-Learning environment. The scope of the project includes many different developments, covering aspects of learning, teaching and getting statistical information of educational process. One of these developments refers to extending the standard architecture of this portal with agent-oriented environment, adding reactivity, pro-activity and some additional aspects of personalization. The agents in the agent-oriented extension (referred to as Agent Village) are working for last eight years and gathered many data about their work and students’ behavior, generating different ideas for improvements. This paper presents approbation of the Evaluator agent, put in very different conditions than usually, proving that it’s capable to extend its work in different areas than those previously intended for.

Information exchange between organizations, associates, and customers is essential for the success of any type of business. Thus, a web service (can be software, application, or cloud technology) is being used for backing communication between application-to-application and solving the interoperability problem. It offers homogeneous web protocols to interoperate, interconnect, and exchange data messaging with numerous applications with HTML, XML, WSDL, SOAP, and other open standards. In this study, we develop a framework to demonstrate how the idea of web services can be utilized for online airline reservations by utilizing the finite automata computational model. The model is a fundamental computing model that presents sufficient behaviour of the service based on its user consideration or inquiries. To express the transition flow of an online airline reservation with the given desired input, the nondeterministic finite automata (NFA) is being used. For the validation, the NFA is being converted to the Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) to make out the anticipated patterns. The entire framework process was carried out using the Java Formal Languages and Automata Package (JFLAP) simulation tool and was tested with precise and valid simulating inputs.

The proposed system investigates SOAP based web services. This search system dynamically discovers the web services and integrates the required web services to satisfy the user requests. Using search engine, WSDL files are retrieved and these files are processed to select the required web services. In this system, user requested functional words are searched using search engine. Horizontal, vertical, inter-cluster and intra-cluster searches are performed on these search results. All elements of WSDL files are compared with user given functional word using weight matrix and selected web services are executed to satisfy the user request. Performance of different search systems are analyzed. Due to dynamic nature of web services, stored data set is not used for implementation. Instead WSDL links are retrieved during run time which is novelty of the proposed system.

E-business combines the Internet and network environment with the economic operations, reaching to the core of the business processes, strengthen the enterprises informatization and digitization level. Often e-business integrates different services which communicate with each other. Frameworks and collections of services can be developed in efficient manner using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web services based on Soap protocol and Rest architectural style are key technologies, used to realize e-business applications frameworks. In this paper is presented an e-business platform example, based on SOAP and REST Web services, which can be accessed by mobile users through Android OS Smartphones, while the data traffic amount and cost are optimized. The digital content source is represented by the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), but it also can be retrieved from on-line vendors, e-commerce, e-payment agents etc. A performance evaluation for the e-business SOAP and REST Web services, provided on 4G LTE and IEEE 802.11n WLAN channels, is presented in the paper, in a QoS approach, referring to the response time and throughput. The content and informational tools of the platform can be extended and configured to provide and comply with other types of e-business services as: e-banking, e-commerce, e-payment agents etc, according to different application patterns.

The traditional educational reform resource merging method directly mines relevant resources based on keywords and then further processes the resources, resulting in excessively high repetition rate and incomplete rate of merging resources. Aiming at the above problems, the method of combining educational reform resources under the background of Internet+ is proposed. Use web crawlers to collect educational reform resources in the Internet, and transfer the crawled resource metadata to the server under the SOAP transmission mechanism. Use the hash function to delete the duplicate resource metadata and establish the objective function of education reform resource allocation. Solve the objective function, get the optimal resource allocation plan, and complete the research on the method of resource reform in education reform. The experimental results show that, compared with the traditional resource structuring method, after applying the proposed education reform resource structuring method to process resources, there are no incomplete resources and the proportion of duplicate resources is at most 3.7%, which can effectively improve the effect of education reform and is feasible.

A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) integrates the computation, engineering, and physical processes. The operations are coordinated, controlled, monitored and integrated by a computing and communication core, through a network of devices, sensors, actuators, feedback loops etc. CPS couples efficiently the physical and cyber worlds. Nowadays, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is applied in designing middleware-based CPS, enabling the development of scalable framework of services. CPS is placed on top of the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure, which enables the inter-connection of all types of devices to exchange data. This is a base for integration of various types of data transactions and services for Industry 4.0 applications or to fulfill actual citizens' requirements, within the Cyber worlds. However, sometimes, physical devices have not the capability to realize complex processing tasks, because their computation and power resources are limited. Smartphones offer the advantages of many types of sensors included and of significant computations, communications and power resources, which make them very attractive to be used for CPS implementation. This paper presents a CPS based on a framework of Soap and Rest Web services, which can be accessed by mobile users and citizens, through Smartphones. A response time and throughput evaluation is realized, as QoS key performance indicators for a CPS.

In this work we present the model for construction of e-trade management system architecture which consists of two basic blocks: the landing Web-pages management unit of the online store is responsible for interacting with the user, receiving orders and collecting primary information and Web-enterprise management unit, responsible for processing orders, their delivery, and all enterprise’s business processes realization. We have focused our attention to developing an architecture model for e-trady management system. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) using enterprise service bus (ESB) concept is offered for architectural implementation. In developed e-trade management system architecture we used the method of integrating complex information systems within the information environment based on SOA and ESB technologies, which represents an independent, integrative subsystem for relatively integrated information systems. Typical information systems that belong to the e-trade system are used as services. These web-based services should be developed and used to enhance ESB efficiency. Such web-services implement SOAP and use WSDL (Web Services Description Language), as well as UDDI specification (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). At that, each typical information system is simultaneously data supplier and data consumer. Each information system handles its own data class, while being able to both transmit and receive, adjust and modify data according to operational information from other information systems within main business processes.

The web service has widely spread in recent years which is showed by the large number of published web services. However, users may not always find their needs in one web service which has consequently spawned a composition of web services. This composition lead to many task difficulties including the selection of web services, which also consists of choosing the best QoS-based services among other similar services provided. From this perspective, there are several approaches to the selection of web services, however, this remains deficient at the level of execution time due to the rage number of competing web services. In this paper, we propose a new selection approach based on prefiltering and Skyline, this approach is tested and improved using a real dataset. We used two steps to solve this problem, prefiltering and Skyline. The first step is the use of K-Means clustering to bundle web services with similar Quality of Service (QoS) properties under one umbrella is explored. The second one is defining the most dominant web service using the Branch-and-Bound Skyline algorithm.

On the early stage of its life cycle, a web service must first be discovered before it is accessed by its clients. A web service description is a document published by the service provider that allows potential clients to get hold of information of a web service during the discovery process. Web services built based on simple object access protocol (SOAP) use a standardized XML document known as Web Service Description Language (WSDL) to describe itself. On the other hand, most web services built based on representational state transfer (REST) has yet to be described in a structured form. REST service description is mainly written in text in HTML documents aimed to be read by human readers, thus containing little to none machine-readability properties. This work proposes a solution that accounts standardization and machine-readability property while still considers the simplicity and human readability property of REST service description written in HTML documents. The solution combines concepts that have been proposed before to construct a new service description mechanism to allow human-readability and machine-readability while still maintaining its simplicity and standardization.

Cloud technology uses the main function of IoT (Internet of Things) devices to quickly transfer huge amounts of data because data must be transmitted efficiently and efficiently among equipments. IoT enables smart devices to collect and share data without manual assistance. Compared to IoT, IIoT (Industrial IoT) technology is used for industrial purposes, but common industrial communication protocols such as Modbus TCP and Profinet only provide real-time data and cannot provide safe and reliable historical data. The OPC unified architecture (OPC UA) overcomes the above shortcomings and changes the entire industrial communication protocol and resolves the issue of object-oriented concepts. Other IoT protocols such as RTI DDS and MQTT do not emphasize the integration of industrial equipments. In this paper, we provide a solution enabling the smart robotic arm (Staubli) to convert its original communication protocol (SOAP/WSDL) into the role of an OPC UA server. This solution is successfully integrated in ERP/MES manufacturing production systems. The proposed method can help basic IoT robots be seamlessly embedded in ERP/MES manufacturing systems. We demonstrated how the OPC UA cloud computing platform worked. When a PCB color image was uploaded from the client, the OPC UA server processed it by the Gaussian blur and Canny filters and then returned the processed image to the client in a gray-scale image.

This paper discusses the results of a monitoring and evaluation program of two off-grid energy kiosks in rural Zambia which have been operational for 1-2 years. The monitoring and evaluation program was designed to capture qualitative and quantitative data primarily related to the extent at which kiosk-related services have been utilized in the community. They also include questions regarding environmental impacts and opportunities for future community development that could be supported by the kiosk. The results show that the kiosks did improve access to electricity services such as refrigeration, lighting, and mobile phone charging. However, the results also show the opportunity and desire for the kiosks to provide additional services such as water pumping and grain milling, and basic goods such as salt, soap and cooking oil.

Business Process Management System (BPMS) integrates several software modules to support the business process (BP) lifecycle. A process modeler, process engine, a web portal for interaction with users, and a REST/SOAP API which exposes operations from the engine are key ones. In previous works we have evaluated several BPMS identifying similarities in terms of the concepts they manage in their user portals and the APIs they expose, and how the user portals became highly coupled to the underlying process engine through the provided API. We proposed a generic user portal that makes invocations to a generic API decoupling the portal from the specific process engine it invokes, which can be exchanged through the generic API invocation to different process engines. In this paper we present an extension of this work by adding concepts to the generic API and data model, a comparative analysis between BPMS, as well as the implementation of adapters for three different engines to show its capabilities.

The aim of this work is to make SMS messaging free and as simple as possible. There are many countries even these days, where SMS sending has quit a high price. The SMS messages are shown in a chat-style app, where all messages are shown in chat bubbles. Free SMS can be sent in two ways. The first way is to send free SMS via a SOAP server. The second way is to send free SMS with email via email to SMS gateways. The app has also possibility to send paid SMS too. The sender needs to have the app installed and needs to have an internet connection (Wi-Fi or mobile), but the receiver not, since the final messages are sent as SMS messages. The app has also functionality to write SMS with vocal command and read SMS loud with the text-to-speech functionality.

This work developed a Web service based Information Exchange Platform (WIEP) for effective business operations among generation, transmission and distribution utilities in the Nigerian deregulated electricity market. Object-oriented methodology and multi-tenant architecture were used to design and implement the components (GUI, database and messaging server) of the WIEP. While the GUI was implemented using various object attributes, the database, messaging server and application logic that connected the components were implemented using SQL, SOAP and C# programming language respectively. The developed system was tested on shared and dedicated servers to examine its performance (response time and throughput). The GUI, database and messaging server were functional when tested. The platform’s response time gave linear trend on shared and dedicated servers respectively whereas the throughput produced linear and near-exponential trends respectively on shared and dedicated servers. The developed platform if adopted will improve electric power management in Nigeria when deregulation is fully operational.

a furniture rental service multinational company has a mobile application that is used by the salesperson to make sales transactions. Currently the mobile application gets data from the ERP system by importing and exporting it so that the data used is not real-time. To support the creation of real-time data communication between ERP systems and mobile applications, a replacement method for the export and import process is needed. Therefore, this study makes several web services that can be used to replace the export and import processes through the integration of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with mobile applications using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web services are made using RESTful and have passed several stages of testing using the QOS standard. Based on the results of testing using Jmeter with a simulation of 20 users obtained latency on the web service is 3 seconds and 4 seconds load time with an average data size of 2599 bytes so it can be concluded that this quality is quite good in terms of performance and accessibility. Test results using vooky show no bugs, but there are still shortcomings in security, which are caused by the lack of security in the header. With the results of these tests, the webservice can be used to replace the export and import process that have been used by the salesperson, so the data communication between ERP and mobile applications becomes real-time.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are increasingly gaining interest in Internet of Drones (IoD) applications for automatizing the labor-intensive tasks. They are used in various areas such as infrastructure inspection. However, UAVs have limited energy resources and computational processing capabilities, which prevents them from running applications onboard and accessing the internet for gaining knowledge about their mission. In order to address these challenges imposed by limited resource on the drone, we propose a new cloud system infrastructure for building open-source IoD applications. We have designed a client-server architecture which hosts the drone as a client and the cloud as a scalable server. For validating the developed IoD application, an open-source drone simulator and flight controller are adopted to perform the tests. The overall architecture of a drone-cloud framework is presented along with a use case to show the applicability of the proposed framework.

ARGOS is a web service we implemented to offer face recognition Authentication Services (AaaS) to mobile and desktop (via the web browser) end users. The Authentication Services may be used by 3rd party service organizations to enhance their service offering to their customers. ARGOS implements a secure face recognition-based authentication service aiming to provide simple and intuitive tools for 3rd party service providers (like PayPal, banks, e-commerce etc) to replace passwords with face biometrics. It supports authentication from any device with 2D or 3D frontal facing camera (mobile phones, laptops, tablets etc.) and almost any operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows and Linux Ubuntu).

QoS (Quality of Service) is a series of widely used indicators for networked user-oriented online services such as SOAP/JSON based web services, serverless microservices or function services in the modern cloud market. Of which, response time and throughput are most important measurements which almost determine the whole user experience caused by underlying factors including network delay or congestion, fluctuating service computation performance at different system workload level, or constrained by cascading resource or service dependencies. It’s valuable to accurately predict QoS indicators under complex scenarios and conditions combination from archived history service experience dataset. In this paper, two subsets of real-world dataset named WS-DREAM were used, which collected 339 users’ records on 5825 web services. Based on related work and descriptive analysis, two QoS (response time and throughput) prediction models were proposed for classification and regression problems. A custom recurrent neural network(RNN) was proposed, which comprises stacked multiple LSTM(Long term and Short Term Memory) layers, several regularization techniques were used. Extensive experiments were conducted to verify the accuracy and efficiency of deep learning based approach comparing with 6 competitive machine learning approaches, including decision tree, AdaBoost, multilayer perceptron, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost. Results showed the prediction accuracy of most algorithms could reach more than 90%, and the proposed RNN based network showed a superior performance both at accuracy and efficiency than other approaches.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are obtained by integrating computation, networking, and physical processes. In many applications, within a CPS, mobile and wireless networks are used to realize the data transmission, conforming to the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). This facilitates interactions with several types of devices like sensors, RFID readers, mobile phones etc. Besides, Smartphones include important sensors as GPS, accelerometers, light sensors, phone camera etc. Based on such a foundation, different electronic services can be developed and provided for various types of clients. New research directions revealed the necessity to consider middleware architectures in CPS design. In this direction, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) represents a paradigm that can be very efficient in designing specific layers of CPS. Web services are examples of SOA implementation, adequate for the requirements of the business environments. This paper presents a Cyber Physical Systems oriented e-business platform using Web services, which can be accessed through mobile and wireless networks, using Android OS Smartphones. A stock market exchange service was considered, as a relevant example of e-business. The time response of the SOAP and REST based Web service was evaluated, on LTE 4G and IEEE 802.11n channels, to determine which protocol is more efficient to increase the real time response capacity of the CPS oriented platform.

Online social networks have been playing important roles for many people. Trends hidden in the online social networks have large impacts on peoples’s live. However, designing a well worked system for analysing the social trends is not easy for most of the small enterprises. Mashup provides a flexible and easy-of-use way for service composition on web. In this paper, we make two contributions as follow. On the one hand, we introduce the mashup technology and related works in detail. On the other hand, we design a framework for social trends analysis system, whose effectiveness and efficiency is demonstrated by our project.

For systems-of-systems, the use of different modeling methods is important not only because each system can be described more correctly, but also benefit from tools that are in use by different communities. Using an opaque or closed source-code tool with others, however, is challenging. Consequently, to facilitate the development of simulations for systems-of-systems it is useful to cast closed-source models in a flexible component-based framework. Using this concept, a RESTful web service framework is developed for the Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) software system. The WEAP RESTful framework has a suite of model components for all the model entities defined in the WEAP system. An example water system model shows the computational cost for the web-service framework is negligible. Casting the model entities to components can play a key role in using the WEAP system with other modeling frameworks useful for simulating the complexities of the Food-Energy-Water systems.

In today’s world, testing cannot be efficient without automation. We need automation for avoiding repetitive work, making sure that the time from development to deployment is reduced with good quality. We just don’t need automation tests, rather tests which are reliable, robust, easy to code, debug, scale and can run in parallel on distributed environment.The paper explores the challenges that can be faced while automating web, mobile web, android, ios, api tests via a common framework such as, a common way of interaction with web and mobile apps, automatically identifying connected mobile devices and run the parallel test instances, writing hybrid tests; a combination of web and api use cases, not tightly coupled with a specific application rather can be used for automating any web, mobile based application.This paper further discusses the approach to bring efficient, generic and re-usable solution for these challenges while ensuring that the users write reliable, robust and effective tests. The approach followed here spans across following areas:- Webdriver management and parallel run. DSL layer on top of the existing api libraries for easy to use interface. Reporting and logging mechanism. Utilities and integration with third parties (like Slack, Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Device Farms, etc )The benefit of this framework is, it is application agnostic capability, which helps to use the same framework against any web applications (web, mobile) for test automation.

With the growing development of digital era, Web service is increasing used for decentralized computing, and it is an effective mechanism for the service integration and e-business on the web. The Extensible markup Language (XML), XMLpath (XPath) and Structure Query Language (SQL) Injection vulnerabilities are common security threats and issues for web services and web applications. Vulnerabilities crack the web service security and hack the data. The web service implementation of Service Orientation Architecture (SOA) becomes the current selective choice and most popular due to its simplicity that work on basic Internet Protocol. Nowadays, organization are investing a large amount of their resources in web services. Web service transaction are used to plain text XML format like Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL). The hacker are easily hack the important content of web services. We improve the security of web service using XML Signature and XML Encryption. The high complexity of XML to alternative of XML is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is gain increasing popularity in web service security. In this paper, a comprehensive review of existing Web service security techniques along with parametric evolution of these schemes are discussed.

ESB as the code component of SOA implementation has a much higher impact on the whole system performance. This study is to zoom into investigations on ESB applications under SOA architect, evaluate the performance for different ESB applications under different SOAP/XML message routing tasks, to gain an understanding of the factors that influence the performance of SOAP/XML message routing tasks in ESB applications. Comparing with the existing ESB performance evaluations, the federated ESB evaluations, as well as performance factors comparison are the main contributions of this study. Both of the single ESB experiments and federated ESB experiments had been conducted. Four ESBs, Tibco, BizTalk, Fuse, and Mule, were tested. Three tasks were used in the single ESB experiments. Sixteen test cases were involved in the federated ESB experiments; the same task was used for all the sixteen test cases. The single ESB experiment results showed that Mule ESB applications had the best performance and Fuse ESB applications had the lowest performance. The federated experiment results showed three good performance cases with Mule ESB involved, which is consistent with the single ESB experiment results. The federated experiment results also suggested that the combination of the two good performance single ESBs are not necessary to result in good performance ESB applications. Overall, Response Time could be the factor that has the most indication of ESB performance. In the future, not only more ESB applications but also more test cases could be included for the federated ESB experiments. Further statistical analysis and result verification would bring a more comprehensive understanding of ESB performance.