April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
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Chapter 17. Testing Web Services with SoapUI
Introduction
Web services are becoming more and more present in today’s development projects. Indeed, they can prove to be an excellent choice for integrating loosely coupled systems.
Web services are often used to integrate different systems, possibly developed by different organizations. If you are on the receiving (client) end of a web service integration project, it is in your best interest to make sure that the web services you are calling return the data you expect them to return.
In this chapter, we look at SoapUI, a tool that can help you test your web services. SoapUI[15] is a powerful open source tool written by Eviware that helps you test your web services in a variety different scenarios. SoapUI supports a wide range of web service protocols, including Soap 1.1 and 1.2, MTOM, and SAAJ, making it suitable for testing a wide range of web services with different requirements. SoapUI also allows you to perform functional testing and put your web services under load and compliance tests along with some code generation capabilities that makes web service development easier.
An Introduction to SoapUI
Based on material contributed by: Masoud Kalali
SoapUI is a particularly rich tool. Its features fall into two main areas, which together cover a good part of the web service development lifecycle. These two areas are:
Web service testing
Web service development
Let’s look at each of these in more detail.
Web Service Testing
SoapUI is first and ...
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