Some Aspects of Reliability Evaluation of Multi Service Multi-Functional SOAP Based Web Services

Reliability evaluation of multi service multi-functional SOAP based web services for high load of users is important from the perspective of operational quality of the service, users and developers. In this article, the authors have emphasized on developing a novel methodology for evaluating the reliability of web service for high load. A prototype research medical web service is considered to predict the reliability of the service by using this methodology. The authors called the service as PMedWS (Prototype Medical Web Service). They performed stress and load testing on the web service using Mercury Load Runner to study the reliability aspects against massive users. The experimental results and the statistical analysis demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our methodology.