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Web Services Testing with soapUI

By : Charitha Kankanamge
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Web Services Testing with soapUI

By: Charitha Kankanamge

Overview of this book

Quality is a key to success of service-oriented projects. Utilization of proper tools is important to the outcome of web service testing methodology. Being the leading open source web services testing tool, soapUI helps to build robust and flexible automated tests in a productive manner. "Web Services Testing with soapUI" guides you on adopting best web service testing mechanisms with the industry leading open source testing tool, soapUI. You will learn to use soapUI effectively in testing service-oriented solutions focusing on testing functional as well as non-functional characteristics of web services. SoapUI is capable of testing JDBC data sources, web applications, RESTful services and web services exposed over transports such as JMS. The book discusses all these features and much more, in detail, through practical and clear examples. This book is focused on learning soapUI in order to test web services in an effective manner. It starts with a general introduction to service-oriented architecture (SOA) followed by testing aspects of service-oriented solutions. This book aims to give readers a comprehensive overview of usage of soapUI in SOA and web services testing projects. Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, you will quickly get your hands dirty with a sample project which makes use of open source web service engine, Apache Axis2. All demonstrations and hands-on exercises are based on this sample project. The tests in a soapUI project are organized into TestSuites, TestCases and TestSteps. You will also learn how soapUI can be used for both functional and non-functional testing. The book then teaches how by using groovy scripting and integrating with Junit and maven, soapUI can easily be used in automated web services testing. By the end, you'llhave learned to test functional and non-functional aspects of web services and automate by integrating into continuous build systems using soapUI.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Web Services Testing with soapUI
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

WADL


WADL is designed to provide a machine process-able description of HTTP-based web applications. We can find more information about WADL in the latest version of the W3C submission of the WADL specification at http://www.w3.org/Submission/wadl/.

We discussed WSDL when we first looked into the SOAP based web services. Though WSDL can be used to describe SOAP-based web services in a comprehensive manner, it has limitations with HTTP operations such as PUT and DELETE, among others. As REST services often deal with HTTP methods, WSDL is not a good option for documenting RESTful services. More precisely, WSDL 1.1 is not a good choice for RESTful services. Later on, WSDL 2.0 specification was launched to address the concerns encountered with WSDL 1.1, and it provides better support for RESTful services over WSDL 1.1.

WADL can be considered as an alternative to WSDL 2.0. WADL is lightweight and easier to understand than the WSDL specification. Hence, it is much appropriate for documenting RESTful...