Makiko Shimamura

Interoperability verification for Web Service based robot communication platforms

The common robot communication platform using Web service is well accepted and becoming popular gradually. One of the key components for robot communication platform is the reliable messaging which provides reliable high performance message transfer. Both conforming to standard specifications and interoperability among multiple implementations are critical requirements for the platform, because different robots and different services should be able to connect and communicate each other on the platform. However, there is no conformance/interoperability testing tool for the reliable message component of Web services. This paper describes requirements for the conformance and interoperability testing for Web service technologies, and how we developed the verification suit that satisfies the requirements by automated error case verification model. This paper also reports the interoperability verification results for the reliable message component of Web service. It shows that the verification suite is effective to verify interoperability easily even for various complicated error situation. And it is also shows the application driven tests, which neither require installation of the test programs nor probes, are effective to ensure the interoperability in the actual application system and the common robot service platform implementation.

INTEROPERABILITY VERIFICATION FOR WEB SERVICE BASED ROBOT COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

The common robot communication platform using Web Service is well accepted and becoming popular gradually. One of the key components for robot communication platform is the reliable messaging which provides reliable high performance message transfer. Both conforming to standard specifications and interoperability among multiple implementations are critical requirements for the platform, because different robots and different services should be able to connect and communicate each other on the platform. However, there is no conformance/interoperability testing tool for the reliable message component of Web Services. This paper describes requirements for the conformance and interoperability testing for Web Service technologies, and how we developed the verification suit that satisfies the requirements by automated error case verification model. This paper also reports the interoperability verification results for emerging reliable message components of Web Services and our contribution to the international standardization group based on this verification results.

Realizing Interoperable Infrastructure for Electronic Business Systems and Local Government Systems

Web Services and related open standard technologies are key technologies for system infrastructure in industry systems and local government systems. There are many projects that have adopted these technologies in the local government systems and also in B2B systems in various industries. We found that one of the key requirements to promote these standards in industries is pull messaging for client/server systems, since many small and medium enterprises can’t afford server systems. To achieve this, we have standardized Pull messaging specification as a part of ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language) Messaging Services Specification Version3.0, with inputs of industries requirements. We also have developed Conformance test tool and additional test assertions for ebMS3.0 to promote interoperable implementation for ebMS3.0, and executed interoperability test. In this experience, we have found interoperability issues in open source. We will investigate this issue further, and continue giving feedbacks to implementations and prototype. We believe this experience regarding Pull messaging technology will be valuable for local government systems in the future, when it is going to expand its infrastructure to connect with medium and small entities.