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Easily test Web services with soapUI

Thanks for pointing out this tool.

How do other people test their Web services? throw data at it? Manually create requests to it, or use a test harness?

J.Ja

Basically, I let the .Net tools (WSDL.exe) create the stub components and use NUnit to unit-test those components. Since most of the time, I'm consuming web services through .Net clients, that works fine for me, although I understand that, should I consume them from another non-.Net client, that wouldn't be "unit" enough.

Hi Tony:

That was a very nice review of soapUI.

The mock service (or service virtualization) feature makes soapUI very valuable
to agile development shops. Start with a SOAP service interface definition and
with 3 clicks you have a working mock SOAP service. soapUI's support of XPath
and Groovy mean the mock service responses include request data and can be
programmed to be as complex or simple as needed.

My company, PushToTest, provides professional training for soapUI and soapUI
Pro. Details are at http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/training/soapUI#top. We
also provide technical support, consulting, and sell licenses to the Pro product.

PushToTest TestMaker, the open-source test platform, ships with soapUI
incorporated. TestMaker runs soapUI tests as functional test, load and
performance tests, and business service monitors. TestMaker is a distributed
test environment. Details on the integration are at:
http://soapui.pushtotest.com.

Thanks for the review.

-Frank

Using a WSDL, SoapUI can creates mock web services and simulate behaving a server, accepting request and sending responses defined by user.

Has anyone tried this against a webservice hosted in IIS that required windows authentication? I know this is not a core feature of this software but its a hurdle I have to get past to try this out.