February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 47m
English
book
How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services
by James A. Whittaker, Mike Andrews
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CHAPTER 10. Web Services
What’s In This Chapter?
This chapter departs from the “attack” format of previous chapters. Like the privacy material of Chapter 9, “Privacy,” Web Services are of a more general nature and concern more than just software testers. Web Services are a new type of Web programming paradigm that makes programming Web applications more like programming traditional applications, where programs are purposefully built to be reusable through an exposed application programming interface.
Introduction
According to the Gartner research group, Web Services are the next big thing in the IT industry, slowly taking over from the traditional ...