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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

About the Reviewers

Evanthika Amarasiri joined 99X Techonology (former Eurocenter DDC Ltd.) in 2000 as a trainee QA Engineer. She has become competent in testing applications based on Java, C++, VB and .NET, Lotus Notes, and in mobile application testing (Symbian and J2ME). While she was working there, she studied for her B.Sc. in Information Systems at the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka, which was affiliated to the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She left 99X Technology in 2006 and joined WSO2 Lanka (Pvt) Limited (in the same year) as a Software Engineer - Quality Assurance. From 2006 to date, she has worked with several leading middleware products of WSO2. During her stay at WSO2 she has gained experience and knowledge on different kinds of web technologies, operating systems, databases, application servers, and many QA testing tools. She has also gained extensive experience in functional, usability, performance testing, as well as QA test planning. By contributing to the Apache Synapse, which is a free and open source software project, she has become a committer for the same. Currently she is working as a Quality Assurance Technical Lead and is also a member of the Management Committee in the Integration Technology team of WSO2.

Bindu Laxminarayan is an expert in Software Testing and Quality Assurance with expertise in Test Automation Framework Design and Development. Over the last 7 years, she has worked on various testing tools including but not limited to SOAPUI, Jmeter and selenium on RESTful and SOAP Web Services. She is currently working on Test Automation of Cloud Web Services and design patterns in Automated Testing. Over the last two years she has presented at work on StarEast Conference.

Ajay Pawar is an IBM middleware consultant having more than a decade of experience. He is Director at ePower Consultancy Services UK. Ltd.

He started his career working on technologies such as Java, Java Swing, Java EE, and then extended his experience in SOA world. He is an expert in IBM middleware tools such as WebSphere Process Server (WPS), WebSphere Integration Developer (WID), WebSphere MQ (WMQ), and Websphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR). He has also good flair for web services testing. He is proficient in soapUI tool and he used it extensively for manual as well as automation testing.