  Specification-based regression testing of web services is an important
activity which verifies the quality of web services. A major problem in web
services is that only provider has the source code and both user and broker
only have the XML based specification. So from the perspective of user and
broker, specification based regression testing of web services is needed. The
existing techniques are code based. Due to the dynamic behavior of web
services, web services undergo maintenance and evolution process rapidly.
Retesting of web services is required in order to verify the impact of changes.
In this paper, we present an automated safe specification based regression
testing approach that uses original and modified WSDL specifications for change
identification. All the relevant test cases are selected as reusable hence our
regression test selection approach is safe.

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