ABSTRACT
Web services have emerged as a web based technology for accessing information over the internet using platform neutral web standards and protocols. In this paper we propose to develop and implement a service oriented prototype research service application using. Net technology to study and predict reliability aspects of web services. The uniqueness of our proposed system is the hierarchically designed parent service that authenticates a particular user to invoke services, acting as a service broker and redirects the query to execute children services, acting as a service provider. An automated software testing tool, Mercury LoadRunner is deployed to test and record the specific attributes of the web services and analyse the reliability aspects of the services. The outcome of the experiment will help in adoption and usage of the web services in business applications and integrations. We present here the architecture, procedure of testing, transaction status and reliability estimation of the system under gradual stress of end users.
