The BPEL Portability Profile

A tool for detecting portability issues in BPEL code

bpp is now available on jCenter. To use it in your gradle build, simply set jcenter as your repository and include the following:

dependencies {
	// other dependencies
	compile 'uniba-dsg:bpp:1.0.0'
}

Software Requirements

bpp is tested for support on JDK 1.8.X

• JAVA_HOME should point to the jdk directory
• PATH should include JAVA_HOME/bin

Licensing

LGPL Version 3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html

Usage

Portability Analysis

bpp executes in the context of gradle build. To perform a portability analysis of a BPEL process or all of the processes located in a certain directory, just point bpp to that path using gradlew run.

$ gradlew run -Pargs="<ARGS>"

# usage: <path-to-files>

# Examples
$ gradlew run -Pargs="src/main/resources/language-features/basic-activities/Assign-Empty.bpel" # Checking a process definition from the test directory 
$ gradlew run -Pargs="src/main/resources/language-features/" # Checking all process definitions in the test directory 

# If you use the strict (-s) option, the tool will only parse files with the http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/process/executable namespace
$ gradlew run -Pargs="src/main/resources/language-features/ -s" # Checking all process definitions with the proper BPEL namespace in the test directory 

Engine Selection

In the current development version, bpp can be used to determine which engines (probably) can and which engines (certainly) cannot execute a given process. You can hook into the bpp-API by using the EngineSelector class.

bpp.executables.EngineSelector selector = new bpp.executables.EngineSelector();

// get a List of engines that do not support a given process...
List<String> engines = selector.getNonSupportingEngines(Paths.get("src/main/resources/language-features/basic-activities/Assign-Int.bpel"));

// ... or a List of engines that do support a given process
engines = selector.getSupportingEngines(Paths.get("src/main/resources/language-features/basic-activities/Assign-Int.bpel"));
		
/* 
 * engine names are Strings that identify a total of 16 open source engines in different versions.
 * supported engines can be found in bpp.domain.assertions.Engines
 */

Utility Tasks

bpp also provides several utility tasks you can execute

# Utility gradle tasks
$ gradlew profile # Generates the profile document containing the test assertions
$ gradlew latex # Generates a tex file with latex tables for all test assertions
$ gradlew jar # Builds an executable jar from the source to be found in `/build/libs`

# Generate project files 
$ gradlew idea # Generates Intellij IDEA project files
$ gradlew eclipse # Generates Eclipse project files

Output

For each file that is checked, the tool produces a report named BPEL_FILE_NAME-report.xml in the same directory. This file follows the WS-I report schema. In the root directory, two csv files are written with aggregated results and several metrics for all process definitions analyzed.

• results.csv (values separated with semicolon, preferred by MS Office)
• r-results.csv (values separated with comma, preferred by R)

Example of a report file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<report xmlns="http://www.ws-i.org/testing/2009/03/report/" name="BPEL Portability Profile Test Report" timestamp="2014-05-23T09:48:57.905+02:00">
    <analyzer>
        <profile>
            <name>BPEL Portability Profile 1.0</name>
            <revision>$Revision: 1.0 $</revision>
            <implementer name="Distributed Systems Group" location="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/pi"/>
        </profile>
        <environment>
            <operatingSystem name="Windows 7" version="6.1"/>
            <xmlParser name="JAXB" version="2.0"/>
        </environment>
        <analyzerEngine>
            <analyzerVersion>V1.0</analyzerVersion>
            <releaseDate>2012-11-22+01:00</releaseDate>
            <implementer name="Distributed Systems Group" location="http://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/pi"/>
            <xpathVersion>2.0</xpathVersion>
            <xsltEngine name="Saxon He" version="9.5.1-5"/>
            <generationTimestamp>2014-05-23T09:48:57.905+02:00</generationTimestamp>
        </analyzerEngine>
        <runConfig>
            <timestamp>2014-05-23T09:48:57.905+02:00</timestamp>
            <xsltEngine name="Saxon He" version="9.5.1-5"/>
            <docSource timestamp="2014-01-21T15:51:48.629+01:00">Assign-Empty.bpel</docSource>
            <comments>no comments</comments>
        </runConfig>
    </analyzer>
    <artifact type="message">
        <entry referenceID="Assign-Empty.bpel">
            <assertionResult id="bpp-r3-1" prescription="permitted" result="warning">
                <failureMessage xml:lang="en">The process definition uses the empty variant for a from-spec in a &lt;copy&gt; construct</failureMessage>
                <failureDetail xml:lang="en">Portability level nonportable, Degree: 9: Warning in line 20</failureDetail>
            </assertionResult>
            <assertionResult id="bpp-r3-2" prescription="permitted" result="warning">
                <failureMessage xml:lang="en">The process definition uses the empty variant for a to-spec in a &lt;copy&gt; construct.</failureMessage>
                <failureDetail xml:lang="en">Portability level nonportable, Degree: 9: Warning in line 21</failureDetail>
            </assertionResult>
            <assertionResult id="bpp-r1" prescription="permitted" result="passed"/>
            <assertionResult id="bpp-r2" prescription="permitted" result="passed"/>
            ...
            </entry>
    </artifact>
</report>

Project Structure

src/main/java # the main source code
src/main/resources/ # xsds for WS-I profiles and BPEL files for checking the correctness of test assertions
src/main/generated # Java classes generated from the WS-I xsds
src/test/java # JUnit tests 

Authors

Joerg Lenhard

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