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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

Planning for web service performance testing


As with any types of testing, performance testing must also be planned properly in order to achieve the correct results. Web service performance test planning can be described in a set of steps, as follows:

  • Identify the expected performance requirements

  • Study the service contract

  • Analyze service integration scenarios

  • Identify message volume, size, and transmission rate

The expected performance requirements can be specific to your needs. For example, your SLA of a web service includes a phrase stating that the published web service must serve the consumer within 5 ms at peak hours, or the service should be available (up and running) 99.99 percent of the time. Depending on the SLA, you should plan for what types of performance tests need to be done. If the SLA defines 99.99 percent up time, you must plan for a sufficient round of endurance tests to make sure there are no memory leaks or threading issues when the service runs over a long period.

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