Chapter 8. Getting Started with REST Testing

There are various technologies that can be used to implement interoperability between heterogeneous applications. As we discussed in previous chapters, web services technology can be considered as the de facto standard for enterprise integration. We can identify two distinguished mechanisms in implementing web services, namely, SOAP based web services and RESTful web services. So far, we looked into the various aspects of SOAP-based web services and how soapUI facilitates the testing of SOAP web services. Our sample hotel reservation application has also been completely based on SOAP based web services where we used the SOAP messaging model. The WSDL is used to describe web services as well as SOAP ...

Get Web Services Testing with soapUI now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.