Test Strategies
Moving a SOAP-based Web service into a production environment requires assurances of high availability and predictably good performance. Imagine an e-commerce Web service that was not available or did not perform well! Here is a checklist Java developers should keep in mind when planning to test a Web service:
Stateful testing. When you use SOAP to put a product in a shopping basket, is the product in the shopping basket later on?
Privilege testing. What happens when one user tries to put a product into another user's shopping basket?
Speed testing. Has it taken more than five seconds to put the product into the shopping basket?
Boundary timing testing. What happens when a Web services request times out, or takes a really long time ...
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